{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/an-axiomatic-analysis-of-diversity-evaluation","title":"An Axiomatic Analysis of Diversity Evaluation Metrics: Introducing the Rank-Biased Utility Metric","arxiv_id":"1805.02334","date":"2018-08-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Amigó Enrique","Spina Damiano","Carrillo-de-Albornoz Jorge"],"abstract":"Many evaluation metrics have been defined to evaluate the effectiveness\nad-hoc retrieval and search result diversification systems. However, it is\noften unclear which evaluation metric should be used to analyze the performance\nof retrieval systems given a specific task. Axiomatic analysis is an\ninformative mechanism to understand the fundamentals of metrics and their\nsuitability for particular scenarios. In this paper, we define a\nconstraint-based axiomatic framework to study the suitability of existing\nmetrics in search result diversification scenarios. The analysis informed the\ndefinition of Rank-Biased Utility (RBU) -- an adaptation of the well-known\nRank-Biased Precision metric -- that takes into account redundancy and the user\neffort associated to the inspection of documents in the ranking. Our\nexperiments over standard diversity evaluation campaigns show that the proposed\nmetric captures quality criteria reflected by different metrics, being suitable\nin the absence of knowledge about particular features of the scenario under\nstudy.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02334v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02334v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"an-axiomatic-analysis-of-diversity-evaluation","repo_url":"https://github.com/jCarrilloDeAlbornoz/RBU","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"an-axiomatic-analysis-of-diversity-evaluation","repo_url":"https://github.com/rmit-ir/RBU","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"diversity","task_name":"Diversity"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1805.02334","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1805.02334","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}