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Hypothesis Testing for the Risk-Sensitive Evaluation of Retrieval Systems

Dincer, B. Taner; Macdonald, Craig; Ounis, Iadh (Assoc Computing Machinery, 2014)

The aim of risk-sensitive evaluation is to measure when a given information retrieval (IR) system does not perform worse than a corresponding baseline system for any topic. This paper argues that risk-sensitive evaluation ...