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....
In this paper we compare the effectiveness scores and system rankings obtained with the inex-2002 metric, the official measure of INEX 2004, and the XCG metrics proposed in [4] an...
The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
INEX, the evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval, has since its establishment defined the relevance of an element according to two graded dimensions, exhaustivit...
: 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...