EVIA 2016: The seventh international workshop on evaluating information access

Information access technologies provide the interface between human information needs and digital information resources. The reliable evaluation of these technologies has been recognized for decades as central to the advancement of the field. As information retrieval technologies become more pervasive, the forms of retrieval more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the importance of effective, efficient, and innovative evaluation grows as well. The International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA) provides a refereed forum for the publication of novel research across the field of information retrieval evaluation, including test collections, metrics, statistics, user studies, implicit user feedback, and crowdsourcing. Every year-and-a-half EVIA is held in conjunction with the NTCIR conference in Tokyo, Japan at the National Institute of Informatics (NII). The seventh EVIA workshop was held on June 7, 2016 …