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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
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Preference Judgments for Relevance
Authors : Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Susan T. Dumais
Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Information retrieval systems have traditionally been evaluated over absolute judgments of relevance: each document is judged for relevance on its own, independent of other documents that may be on topic. We hypothesize that preference judgments of the form “document A is more relevant than document B” are easier for assessors to make than absolute judgments, and provide evidence for our hypothesis through a study with assessors. We then investigate methods to evaluate search engines using preference judgments. Furthermore, we show that by using inferences and clever selection of pairs to judge, we need not compare all pairs of documents in order to apply evaluation methods.