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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Information retrieval system evaluation: effort, sensitivity, and reliability
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
Mark Sanderson, Justin Zobel
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
PRES: a score metric for evaluating recall-oriented information retrieval applications
Information retrieval (IR) evaluation scores are generally designed to measure the effectiveness with which relevant documents are identified and retrieved. Many scores have been ...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
JUCS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Ranking Retrieval Systems with Partial Relevance Judgements
: Some measures such as mean average precision and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precision and recall that are t...
Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani