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The Average R-precision is the arithmetic mean of the R-precision values for an information retrieval system over a set of n query topics. It can be expressed as follows:
where RP represents the R-Precision value for a given topic from the evaluation set of n topics. R-Precision is defined as the precision after R documents have been retrieved by the system, where R is also the total number of judged relevant documents for the given topic. Precision is defined as the portion of retrieved documents that are truly relevant to the given query topic.
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R-precision places lower emphasis on the exact ranking of the relevant documents returned by an information retrieval system. This can be useful when a topic has a large number of judged relevant documents, or when an evaluator is more interested in measuring aggregate performance as opposed to the fine-grained quality of the ranking...
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National Institute of Standards and Technology. TREC-2004 common evaluation measures. Available online at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec14/appendices/CE.MEASURES05.pdf. 2005. Retrieved on 27 Aug 2007.
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Beitzel, S.M., Jensen, E.C., Frieder, O. (2016). Average R-Precision. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_491-2
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