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Record W2515979697 · doi:10.1145/2970398.2970427

Retrievability in API-Based "Evaluation as a Service"

2016· article· en· W2515979697 on OpenAlex
Jiaul H. Paik, Jimmy Lin

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicWeb visibility and informetrics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNational Science Foundation
KeywordsRetrievabilityComputer scienceTask (project management)Raw dataService (business)World Wide WebData collectionDatabaseApplication programming interfaceInformation retrievalEngineeringOperating systemProgramming languageDocument retrieval

Abstract

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"Evaluation as a service" (EaaS) refers to a family of related evaluation methodologies that enables community-wide evaluations and the construction of test collections on documents that cannot be easily distributed. In the API-based approach, the basic idea is that evaluation organizers provide a service API through which the evaluation task can be completed, without providing access to the raw collection. One concern with this evaluation approach is that the API introduces biases and limits the diversity of techniques that can be brought to bear on the problem. In this paper, we tackle the question of API bias using the concept of retrievability. The raw data for our analyses come from a naturally-occurring experiment where we observed the same groups completing the same task with the API and also with access to the raw collection. We find that the retrievability bias of runs generated in both cases are comparable. Moreover, the fraction of relevant tweets retrieved through the API by the participating groups is at least as high as when they had access to the raw collection.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.767
Threshold uncertainty score0.609

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.313
Teacher spread0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2016
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