Measuring Retrieval Effectiveness Based on User Preference of Documents.

Yao, Y. Y.

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Publication Date: 1995

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Measuring Retrieval Effectiveness Based on User Preference of Documents.

Yao, Y. Y.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v46 n2 p133-45 Mar 1995

Discusses user preferences for the representation, interpretation, and measurement of the relevance or usefulness of retrieved documents. Highlights include measurement of user judgments on documents; distance between rankings; measures of retrieval effectiveness; normalized performance measure; and the relationship of distance-based measures to other performance measures. (53 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Mathematical Formulas, Measurement Techniques, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Research Needs

Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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