On relevance distributions

Wolfgang G. Stock

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2006, vol. 57, issue 8, 1126-1129

Abstract: There are at least three possible ways that documents are distributed by relevance: informetric (power law), inverse logistic, and dichotomous. The nature of the type of distribution has implications for the construction of relevance ranking algorithms for search engines, for automated (blind) relevance feedback, for user behavior when using Web search engines, for combining of outputs of search engines for metasearch, for topic detection and tracking, and for the methodology of evaluation of information retrieval systems.

Date: 2006
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