Recall-oriented evaluation for information retrieval systems

Abstract

In a recall context, the user is interested in retrieving all relevant documents rather than retrieving a few that are at the top of the results list. In this article we propose ROM (Recall Oriented Measure) which takes into account the main elements that should be considered in evaluating information retrieval systems while ordering them in a way explicitly adapted to a recall context. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.