Y. Liu
W. Ma
ABSTRACT
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative documents. In this paper, we propose two new metrics to evaluate the performance of information retrieval: diversity, which measures the topic coverage of a group of documents, and information richness, which measures the amount of information contained in a document. Then we present a novel ranking scheme, Affinity Rank, which utilizes these two metrics to improve search results. We demonstrate how Affinity Rank works by a toy data set, and verify our method by experiments on real-world data sets.
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