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A new interpretation of average precision
2008
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '08
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We consider the question of whether Average Precision, as a measure of retrieval effectiveness, can be regarded as deriving from a model of user searching behaviour. It turns out that indeed it can be so regarded, under a very simple stochastic model of user behaviour.
doi:10.1145/1390334.1390453
dblp:conf/sigir/Robertson08
fatcat:azfo5c4hwbdzflg4td22wp6pdu