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...
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...
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...
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...