INST: An Adaptive Metric for Information Retrieval Evaluation
- Alistair Moffat ,
- Peter Bailey ,
- Falk Scholer ,
- Paul Thomas
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS'15) |
Published by ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
A large number of metrics have been proposed to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval systems. Here we provide a detailed explanation of one recent proposal, INST, articulate the various properties that it embodies, and describe a number of pragmatic issues that need to be taken in to account when writing an implementation. The result is a specification for a program inst_eval for use in TREC-style IR experimentation.
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