AI RESEARCH
UsefulBench: Towards Decision-Useful Information as a Target for Information Retrieval
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.15827v1 Announce Type: cross Conventional information retrieval is concerned with identifying the relevance of texts for a given query. Yet, the conventional definition of relevance is dominated by aspects of similarity in texts, leaving unobserved whether the text is truly useful for addressing the query. For instance, when answering whether Paris is larger than Berlin, texts about Paris being in France are relevant (lexical/semantic similarity), but not useful. In this paper, we.