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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
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...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Rank Correlation Coefficient Correction by Removing Worst Cases
Abstract. Rank correlation can be used to compare two linearly ordered rankings. If the rankings include noise values, the rank correlation coefficient will yield lower values than...
Martin Krone, Frank Klawonn
CORR
2000
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculat...
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Lynette Hi...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
On rank correlation and the distance between rankings
Rank correlation statistics are useful for determining whether a there is a correspondence between two measurements, particularly when the measures themselves are of less interest...
Ben Carterette