TY - GEN

T1 - Using complexity measures in Information Retrieval

AU - Van Der Sluis, Frans

AU - Van Den Broek, Egon L.

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - Although Information Retrieval (IR) is meant to serve its users, surprisingly little IR research is not user-centered. In contrast, this article utilizes the concept complexity of in- formation as the determinant of the user's comprehension, not as a formal golden measure. Four aspects of user's com- prehension are applies on a database of simple and normal Wikipedia articles and found to distinguish between them. The results underline the feasibility of the principle of par- simony for IR: where two topical articles are available, the simpler one is preferred

AB - Although Information Retrieval (IR) is meant to serve its users, surprisingly little IR research is not user-centered. In contrast, this article utilizes the concept complexity of in- formation as the determinant of the user's comprehension, not as a formal golden measure. Four aspects of user's com- prehension are applies on a database of simple and normal Wikipedia articles and found to distinguish between them. The results underline the feasibility of the principle of par- simony for IR: where two topical articles are available, the simpler one is preferred

KW - Complexity measures

KW - Comprehension

KW - Parsimony

KW - Relevance

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957932608&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/1840784.1840843

DO - 10.1145/1840784.1840843

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:77957932608

SN - 9781450302470

T3 - IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium

SP - 383

EP - 386

BT - IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium

T2 - 3rd Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIiX'10

Y2 - 18 August 2010 through 21 August 2010

ER -