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      Measuring the Agreement Among Relevance Judges

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      MIRA '99 (MIRA)
      MIRA '99
      14th - 16th April 1999
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            Abstract

            The importance of the issue of the agreement (or disagreement) between relevance judges is increasing, since new kinds of relevance judgment expression are being used (to the classical dichotomous one, various researches have added scalar, weighted, and orders of various kind) and new media are being introduced (it is far quicker to judge the relevance of an image than a text, and thus the human judgments can be obtained more easily). This paper presents a coherent account of the disagreement between relevance judges and groups of judges. Judgment expressions of different kinds, grouped into two categories, are taken into account. To the first category, score judgments , belong the more classical dichotomous, scalar, and weighted. To the second one, order judgments , belong total (or linear) and partial (or weak) orders, both with or without equality. A uniform notation for describing relevance judgments of each kind is proposed; some of the problems arising when one tries to operationally measure the disagreement between judges are described; a measure for the disagreement of two judges expressing two judgments of the same kind is proposed; the disagreement of a group of more than two judges is discussed; and, finally, some experimental activity inspired by this study is sketched.

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            April 1999
            April 1999
            : 1-13
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            [0001]Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

            University of Udine

            Via delle Scienze, 206—Loc. Rizzi

            I 33100 Udine, Italy

            ph.: +39 0432 558456, fax: +39 0432 558499

            WWW: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/mizzaro
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            10.14236/ewic/MIRA1999.5
            b9bc7ec1-4eaf-4c05-8655-ede7fbf648ce
            © Stefano Mizzaro. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. MIRA '99

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            MIRA '99
            MIRA
            Glasgow, Scotland
            14th - 16th April 1999
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            MIRA '99
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction

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