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Brief Communication
On relevance distributions
Article first published online: 6 APR 2006
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20359
Copyright © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
Issue
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Volume 57, Issue 8, pages 1126–1129, June 2006
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How to Cite
Stock, W. G. (2006), On relevance distributions. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 57: 1126–1129. doi: 10.1002/asi.20359
Publication History
- Issue published online: 17 MAY 2006
- Article first published online: 6 APR 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 28 APR 2005
- Manuscript Revised: 13 APR 2005
- Manuscript Received: 17 FEB 2004
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Abstract
There are at least three possible ways that documents are distributed by relevance: informetric (power law), inverse logistic, and dichotomous. The nature of the type of distribution has implications for the construction of relevance ranking algorithms for search engines, for automated (blind) relevance feedback, for user behavior when using Web search engines, for combining of outputs of search engines for metasearch, for topic detection and tracking, and for the methodology of evaluation of information retrieval systems.