Result Assessment Tool: Software to Support Studies Based on Data from Search Engines
摘要
The Result Assessment Tool (RAT) is a software toolkit for conducting research with results from commercial search engines and other information retrieval (IR) systems. The software integrates modules for study design and management, automatic collection of search results via web scraping, and evaluation of search results in an assessment interface using different question types. RAT can be used for conducting a wide range of studies, including retrieval effectiveness studies, classification studies, and content analyses.