Images of Similarity: A Visual Exploration of Optimal Similarity Metrics and Scaling Properties of TREC Topic-Document Sets.

Rorvig, Mark

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ERIC Number: EJ591666

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Publication Date: 1999

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Images of Similarity: A Visual Exploration of Optimal Similarity Metrics and Scaling Properties of TREC Topic-Document Sets.

Rorvig, Mark

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v50 n8 p639-51 Jun 1999

Describes a study that used the TREC information-retrieval test collection to evaluate Visual Information Retrieval Interfaces (VIRIs). Discusses multiple-similarity measures, scaling properties, and MLE (maximum likely method), and suggests that cosine-vector and overlap measures for similarity appear to recover optimal data relationships among the documents. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Measurement Techniques, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Scaling, Visualization

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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