There's also a great presentation by a Google Relevance guy:
https://builtvisible.com/how-google-works/ 

Judgement platform is halfway down.

Video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPu4vHETXw (video is good; and a great way to spend 30min of a Friday afternoon) 

--justin

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Justin Ormont <justin.ormont@gmail.com> wrote:

It's likely a bit excessive, but there are some interesting examples and their rating scale beginning on page 76.

Rating scale & short descriptions of the scale:


Instructions for how to rate ambiguous queries:


Their judgement UI (or one of): 

The map at the top shows where the querying user was located. WMF could do the same to try to better capture the intent of the user. For example a user searching for q={national gallery}, is looking for a different wikipage depending on where they are located. 

​Feedback button:

Search engine land also has a writeup on Bing's equivalent: http://searchengineland.com/bing-search-quality-rating-guidelines-130592

--justin
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Justin Ormont <justin.ormont@gmail.com> wrote:
There's an example of user instructions for a judgement platform on pages 27-27[sic] of these slides: 
http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/d5/teaching/ws14_15/atir/slides/2014-atir-ch09-evaluation.pdf

Judgment instructions generally need a couple of rounds to get right as they are quite task specific. For example, not defining what to do with a disambiguation page will cause some judges to rate a page a "1", and some rate a "3".

--justin