Judgments
• Participants graded on a 9-point Likert scale
• We also simplified scale to a binary class
(1-2 → yes; 3-9 → no)
Let’s look at two examples:
• Practical digital libraries
• Practical digital archiving
Query judgments are subjective, may depend on subject
familiarity. Thus, we calculate inter-judge agreement to:
– establish whether the tasks are well-defined
– establish performance upper bound