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Savoy, Jacques – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Discussion of evaluation methodology in information retrieval focuses on the average precision over a set of fixed recall values in an effort to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness of a search algorithm. Highlights include a review of traditional evaluation methodology with examples; and a statistical inference methodology called bootstrap.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Mathematical Formulas