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Relevance Judgment

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An assessment assigning a relevance label or level to an item with respect to a query, topic, or information need.

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Scope

Relevance judgments are commonly produced by human assessors in Cranfield-style and TREC-style evaluation, though automatic or synthetic judgments may also be studied. Judgments may be binary or graded and are often collected into qrels.

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Not equivalent to

  • Relevance Judgment is not nDCG. Relevance judgments provide labels used by metrics such as nDCG; nDCG is an evaluation metric, not a judgment.
  • Relevance Judgment is not Qrels. A relevance judgment is an individual assessment; qrels are a structured set or file of judgments used in retrieval evaluation.

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