On relevance distributions: Brief Communication

Authors:
Wolfgang G. Stock
Affiliations:
Department of Information Science, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2006

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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. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.