LREC 2000 2nd International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation
 

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Title A Novelty-based Evaluation Method for Information Retrieval
Authors Fujii Atsushi (University of Library and Information Science, 1-2 Kasuga Tsukuba 305-8550, JAPAN, fujii@ulis.ac.jp)
Ishikawa Tetsuya (University of Library and Information Science, 1-2 Kasuga Tsukuba 305-8550, JAPAN, ishikawa@ulis.ac.jp)
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Session Session EP1 - Evaluation and Written Area
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Abstract In information retrieval research, precision and recall have long been used to evaluate IR systems. However, given that a number of retrieval systems resembling one another are already available to the public, it is valuable to retrieve novel relevant documents, i.e., documents that cannot be retrieved by those existing systems. In view of this problem, we propose an evaluation method that favors systems retrieving as many novel documents as possible. We also used our method to evaluate systems that participated in the IREX workshop.