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Metrics for assessing sets of subtopics

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To evaluate the diversity of search results, test collections have been developed that identify multiple intents for each query. Intents are the different meanings or facets that should be covered in a search results list. This means that topic development involves proposing a set of intents for each query. We propose four measurable properties of query-to-intent mappings, allowing for more principled topic development for such test collections.

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  • (2015)Search Result DiversificationFoundations and Trends in Information Retrieval10.1561/15000000409:1(1-90)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2015
  • (2014)Leveraging Dynamic Query Subtopics for Time-Aware Search Result DiversificationAdvances in Information Retrieval10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_19(222-234)Online publication date: 2014
  • (2011)On the informativeness of cascade and intent-aware effectiveness measuresProceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web10.1145/1963405.1963464(407-416)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2011

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    SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    July 2010
    944 pages
    ISBN:9781450301534
    DOI:10.1145/1835449
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    1. diversity
    2. novelty
    3. subtopic

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    • (2015)Search Result DiversificationFoundations and Trends in Information Retrieval10.1561/15000000409:1(1-90)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2015
    • (2014)Leveraging Dynamic Query Subtopics for Time-Aware Search Result DiversificationAdvances in Information Retrieval10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_19(222-234)Online publication date: 2014
    • (2011)On the informativeness of cascade and intent-aware effectiveness measuresProceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web10.1145/1963405.1963464(407-416)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2011

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