Classical retrieval and overlap measures satisfy the requirements for rankings based on a Lorenz curve [An article from: Information Processing and Management]

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Classical information retrieval and overlap measures such as the Jaccard index, the Dice coefficient and Salton's cosine measure can be characterized by Lorenz curves. This result demonstrates the existence of a formal link between information retrieval and the information sciences on the one hand, and concentration and diversity theory, as used, e.g., in social economics and ecology on the other.