Title
An outranking approach for information retrieval
Abstract
Over the last three decades, research in Information Retrieval (IR) shows performance improvement when many sources of evidence are combined to produce a ranking of documents. Most current approaches assess document relevance by computing a single score which aggregates values of some attributes or criteria. They use analytic aggregation operators which either lead to a loss of valuable information, e.g., the min or lexicographic operators, or allow very bad scores on some criteria to be compensated with good ones, e.g., the weighted sum operator. Moreover, all these approaches do not handle imprecision of criterion scores. In this paper, we propose a multiple criteria framework using a new aggregation mechanism based on decision rules identifying positive and negative reasons for judging whether a document should get a better ranking than another. The resulting procedure also handles imprecision in criteria design. Experimental results are reported showing that the suggested method performs better than standard aggregation operators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/s10791-008-9046-z
Inf. Retr.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Information retrieval,Relevance,Outranking approach,Multiple criteria,Aggregation
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1386-4564
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
23
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamed Farah1121.31
Daniel Vanderpooten2115374.66