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Advanced information retrieval measures are effectiveness measures for various types of information access tasks that go beyond traditional document retrieval. Traditional document retrieval measures are suitable for set retrieval (measured by precision, recall, F-measure, etc.) or ad hoc ranked retrieval, the task of ranking documents by relevance (measured by average precision, etc.). Whereas, advanced information retrieval measures may work for diversified search (the task of retrieving relevant and diverse documents), aggregated search (the task of retrieving from multiple sources/media and merging the results), one-click access (the task of returning a textual multidocument summary instead of a list of URLs in response to a query), and multiquery sessions (information-seeking activities that involve query reformulations), among other tasks. Some advanced measures are based on user models that arguably better reflect real user behaviors than standard measures do.
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Sakai, T. (2018). Advanced Information Retrieval Measures. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80705
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