Towards Meaningful Statements in IR Evaluation: Mapping Evaluation Measures to Interval Scales

Information Retrieval (IR) is a discipline deeply rooted in evaluation since its inception. Indeed, experimentally measuring and statistically validating the performance of IR systems are the only possible ways to compare systems and understand which are better than others and, ultimately, more effe...

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Main Authors: Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9552926/