ADM (Average Distance Measure) is an IR effectiveness metric based on the assumptions of continuous relevance and retrieval.
This paper presents some novel experimental results on two different test collections: TREC 8, re-assessed on 4-levels relevance
judgments, and TREC 13 TeraByte collection. The results confirm that ADM correlation with standard measures is high, even
when using less data, i.e., few documents.