Equation 8 · Part 7 · From BM25 to Agentic Retrieval: A History of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
The Text REtrieval Conference, run annually by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1992 onward, gave information retrieval something the field had mostly lacked: a shared, blind evaluation on a common document set, repeated every year with published results. Robertson, Walker, and colleagues at City University London entered TREC-3 in 1994 with the Okapi system, reporting a term-weighting approach within a probabilistic relevance framework and applying it, among other extensions, to phrase weighting and to query expansion using terms drawn from an initial pilot search [ 2 ] . Over that and the following TREC rounds, the Okapi team’s tuning of term-frequency…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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