Frans van der Sluis
ABSTRACT
Although IR is meant to serve its users, surprisingly little IR research is not user-centered. In contrast, this article utilizes the concept complexity of information as the determinant of the user's comprehension, not as a formal golden measure. Four aspects of user's comprehension are applies on a database of simple and normal Wikipedia articles and found to distinguish between them. The results underline the feasibility of the principle of parsimony for IR: where two topical articles are available, the simpler one is preferred.
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- Using complexity measures in information retrieval
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