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Yao, Y. Y. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Discusses user preferences for the representation, interpretation, and measurement of the relevance or usefulness of retrieved documents. Highlights include measurement of user judgments on documents; distance between rankings; measures of retrieval effectiveness; normalized performance measure; and the relationship of distance-based measures to…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Mathematical Formulas, Measurement Techniques, Relevance (Information Retrieval)