A universal method of information retrieval evaluation: The "missing" link M and the universal IR surface

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-30

  Egghe, L ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Fallout; Miss measure; Precision; Recall; Silence; Universal IR surface

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EVALUATION; VECTORS;

QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; UNIVERSAL COMPARABILITY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0344927120     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(02)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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