FOUNDATION OF EVALUATION
C.J. VAN RIJSBERGEN
(Department of Information Science, Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
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Abstract
The mathematical theory of measurement is used to construct a framework for the evaluation of information retrieval strategies. The model arrived at is based on precision and recall. After a detailed examination of the kind of conditions the model can be expected to satisfy a plausible measure of effectiveness is derived. Finally, a number of other measures are shown to be special cases of it.
Citation
VAN RIJSBERGEN, C.J. (1974), "FOUNDATION OF EVALUATION", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 30 No. 4, pp. 365-373. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026584
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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