While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
The full integration of information retrieval (IR) features into a database management system (DBMS) has long been recognized as both a significant goal and a challenging undertak...
Samuel DeFazio, Amjad M. Daoud, Lisa Ann Smith, Ja...
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
We present the first report of automatic sentiment summarization in the legal domain. This work is based on processing a set of legal questions with a system consisting of a semi...
Jack G. Conrad, Jochen L. Leidner, Frank Schilder,...