Abstract. This paper investigates the effect of performance measures and relevance functions in comparing retrieval systems in INEX, an evaluation forum dedicated to XML retrieval....
: Some measures such as average precision over all relevant documents and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precisio...
This paper describes how to design a digital book for a new science called `Knowledge Science'. We prepare several types of navigation facilities for browsing the book. Speci...
Using relevance feedback can significantly improve (ad hoc) retrieval effectiveness. Yet, if little feedback is available, effectively exploiting it is a challenge. To that end,...
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...