Relevation: A raising or lifting up. - Wiktionary
Relevation is a system for performing relevance judgements for Information Retrieval system evaluation. Documents and queries can be uploaded to the system via the web interface. Judges can browse the uploaded documents and queries and provide their relevance assessments.
Relevation! is aimed at anyone wishing to collection relevance assessment for information retrieval evaluation evaluation.
If you do use Relevation! we would appreciated it if you cited us:
B. Koopman and G. Zuccon. Relevation!: An open source system for information retrieval relevance assessment. In Proceedings of the 37th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014.
Relevation! is build using Python's (version 2.7) Django (version 1.6) web framework and Twitter's Bootstrap.
- Checkout relevation from github with:
git clone https://github.com/ielab/relevation.git - Copy your documents into the
relevation/documentsfolder. - Start Relevation! by running
./manage.py runserver. Relevation! will be running at http://127.0.0.1:8000 - Go to Setup page and upload your queries and document pool. (Queries are in the form queryId[tab]queryText; the pool is in standard TREC results format.)
You can also look at a demo that shows how to setup Relevation! from scratch; the demo is available at https://vimeo.com/ielab/relevation.
The query file has the format queryId[tab]queryText; e.g.,
20149 43-year-old woman with soft, flesh-colored, pedunculated lesions on her neck.
201410 67-year-old woman status post cardiac catheterization via right femoral artery, now with a cool, pulseless right foot and right femoral bruit.
201411 40-year-old woman with severe right arm pain and hypotension. She has no history of trauma and right arm exam reveals no significant findings.
201412 25-year-old woman with fatigue, hair loss, weight gain, and cold intolerance for 6 months.
201413 30-year-old woman who is 3 weeks post-partum, presents with shortness of breath, tachypnea, and hypoxia.
The judement file in just a standard TREC results file, which is:
queryId[tab]Q0[tab]docId[tab]score[tab]runDescription
For example:
201410 Q0 NCT02371057 1 0.82393600 bm25
201410 Q0 NCT01102998 2 0.80546773 bm25
201410 Q0 NCT00494468 3 0.78496643 bm25
201410 Q0 NCT02517346 4 0.74522880 bm25
201410 Q0 NCT00881985 5 0.61913227 bm25
The judgement file is in the form
Relevation has been used in anger for:
- CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab: 2013-2016
- ECIR diagnose me paper
- Relevance assessment collection for Bevan Koopman's PhD thesis
- SIGIR Clinical Trials Collection paper
Relevation was designed by Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon. Relevation is an open source project still in development.
