Multidimensional Relevance: Prioritized Aggregation in a Personalized Information Retrieval Setting
Abstract
A new model for aggregating multiple criteria evaluations for relevance assessment
is proposed. An Information Retrieval context is considered, where relevance is mod-
eled as a multidimensional property of documents. The usefulness and effectiveness of
such a model are demonstrated by means of a case study on personalized Information
Retrieval with multi-criteria relevance. The following criteria are considered to estimate
document relevance: aboutness, coverage, appropriateness, and reliability.
The originality of this approach lies in the aggregation of the considered criteria
in a prioritized way, by considering the existence of a prioritization relationship over
the criteria. Such a prioritization is modeled by making the weights associated to a
criterion dependent upon the satisfaction of the higher-priority criteria. This way, it
is possible to take into account the fact that the weight of a less important criterion
should be proportional to the satisfaction degree of the more important criterion.
Experimental evaluations are also reported
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