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	BM25 Probabilistic Ranking (Okapi)	Mean Average Precision (MAP)
Domaine	Bibliométrie	Bibliométrie
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	2009	2000
Auteur d'origine	Stephen Robertson; Karen Spärck Jones; Hugo Zaragoza (Okapi team, City University London)	TREC / information-retrieval evaluation community; Chris Buckley & Ellen Voorhees (stability analysis)
Type	Probabilistic term-weighting and document-scoring pipeline for ranked retrieval	Binary-relevance ranked-retrieval evaluation pipeline
Source fondatrice	Robertson, S., & Zaragoza, H. (2009). The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 3(4), 333-389.	Buckley, C., & Voorhees, E. M. (2000). Evaluating evaluation measure stability. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '00), 33-40.
Alias	Okapi BM25, Best Matching 25, Probabilistic Relevance Ranking, BM25 Term Weighting	MAP, Average Precision, AP, Mean AP
Apparentées	3	3
Résumé	BM25, the Okapi 'Best Matching 25' function, is the dominant classical ranking function in information retrieval and the workhorse term-weighting scheme behind most lexical search engines and bibliographic databases. Developed by Stephen Robertson, Karen Spärck Jones and colleagues at City University London and formalized in Robertson and Zaragoza's 2009 monograph on the Probabilistic Relevance Framework, BM25 scores a document against a query as a sum, over query terms, of inverse-document-frequency weights multiplied by a saturating, length-normalized transform of within-document term frequency. Two free parameters control how quickly repeated terms stop adding evidence (k1) and how strongly document length is penalized (b). BM25 consistently outperformed plain TF-IDF in the TREC evaluations and remains the standard first-stage retrieval baseline against which modern neural rankers are measured.	Mean Average Precision (MAP) is the classic single-number summary of ranked-retrieval effectiveness under binary relevance and the headline metric of the TREC ad hoc retrieval tracks. For a single query, average precision (AP) computes the precision of the result list at each rank where a relevant document appears and averages those values, rewarding systems that rank all relevant documents highly; MAP is then the mean of AP across a set of queries. Buckley and Voorhees's 2000 SIGIR analysis of evaluation-measure stability showed that average precision is among the most stable and discriminating IR measures, requiring fewer queries than alternatives like precision at a fixed cutoff to reliably tell two systems apart. MAP remains a standard reporting metric for ranked retrieval, complementing graded-relevance measures such as nDCG.