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System effectiveness, user models, and user utility
2011
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information - SIGIR '11
There is great interest in producing effectiveness measures that model user behavior in order to better model the utility of a system to its users. These measures are often formulated as a sum over the product of a discount function of ranks and a gain function mapping relevance assessments to numeric utility values. We develop a conceptual framework for analyzing such effectiveness measures based on classifying members of this broad family of measures into four distinct families, each of which
doi:10.1145/2009916.2010037
dblp:conf/sigir/Carterette11
fatcat:njyximtvwzc5bg5uhigeximdca