%0 Journal Article %1 Muresan2005 %A Muresan, Gheorghe %A Liu, Lu %A Cole, Michael %A Smith, Catherine L %A Belkin, Nicholas J %D 2005 %J Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology %K analysis complexity j linguistic reading relevance %P n/a--n/a %R 10.1002/meet.14504201282 %T The effect of document readability on perceived familiarity and relevance %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504201282 %V 42 %X Abstract 10.1002/meet.14504201282.abs We report on an evaluation of the relationship between document readability, an objective measure related to the length and complexity of words and sentences, and the subjective perception of document relevance of users with a certain level of familiarity to a topic. The research reported here, follow-up work to our TREC 2004 effort, tries to explain why all our TREC hypotheses were rejected. While trying to understand what was wrong with our intuition, we propose and test new hypotheses. The main conclusion is that readability may improve the chances that a document is judged relevant, which suggests the use of “blind readability feedback”, i.e. boosting the ranking of relevant documents when performing a search in order to improve retrieval performance.

@article{Muresan2005, abstract = {Abstract 10.1002/meet.14504201282.abs We report on an evaluation of the relationship between document readability, an objective measure related to the length and complexity of words and sentences, and the subjective perception of document relevance of users with a certain level of familiarity to a topic. The research reported here, follow-up work to our TREC 2004 effort, tries to explain why all our TREC hypotheses were rejected. While trying to understand what was wrong with our intuition, we propose and test new hypotheses. The main conclusion is that readability may improve the chances that a document is judged relevant, which suggests the use of “blind readability feedback”, i.e. boosting the ranking of relevant documents when performing a search in order to improve retrieval performance.}, added-at = {2015-12-01T11:35:13.000+0100}, author = {Muresan, Gheorghe and Liu, Lu and Cole, Michael and Smith, Catherine L and Belkin, Nicholas J}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28f2c0e5f0c070a00ff1d2507c92e3a1d/sofiagruiz92}, doi = {10.1002/meet.14504201282}, interhash = {b72f828d5ceb6ad28928ea92fea99363}, intrahash = {8f2c0e5f0c070a00ff1d2507c92e3a1d}, issn = {1550-8390}, journal = {Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {analysis complexity j linguistic reading relevance}, language = {eng}, pages = {n/a--n/a}, timestamp = {2015-12-01T11:35:13.000+0100}, title = {{The effect of document readability on perceived familiarity and relevance}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504201282}, volume = 42, year = 2005 }