Wap Based Information Retrieval System (case Study Of National Archives Enugu)

ABSTRACTOne of the challenges of modern information retrieval is to rank the most relevant documents at the top of the large system output. This calls for choosing the proper methods to evaluate the system performance. The traditional performance measures, such as precision and recall, are based on binary relevance judgment and are not appropriate for multi-grade relevance. The main objective of this paper is to propose a framework for system evaluation based on user preference of documents. It is shown that the notion of user preference is general and flexible for formally denying and interpr…