2 papers
cs.IR2018
A Formal Account of Effectiveness Evaluation and Ranking Fusion
Enrique Amigó, Fernando Giner, Stefano Mizzaro +1
This paper proposes a theoretical framework which models the information provided by retrieval systems in terms of Information Theory. The proposed framework allows to formalize: (…
cs.IR2018
An Axiomatic Analysis of Diversity Evaluation Metrics: Introducing the Rank-Biased Utility Metric
Enrique Amigó, Damiano Spina, Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz
Many evaluation metrics have been defined to evaluate the effectiveness ad-hoc retrieval and search result diversification systems. However, it is often unclear which evaluation me…