Predicting Document Retrieval System Performance: An Expected Precision Measure.

Losee, Robert M., Jr.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Predicting Document Retrieval System Performance: An Expected Precision Measure.

Losee, Robert M., Jr.

Information Processing and Management, v23 n6 p529-37 1987

Describes an expected precision (EP) measure designed to predict document retrieval performance. Highlights include decision theoretic models; precision and recall as measures of system performance; EP graphs; relevance feedback; and computing the retrieval status value of a document for two models, the Binary Independent Model and the Two Poisson Independent Model. (34 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Documentation, Feedback, Graphs, Information Retrieval, Models, Performance, Predictive Measurement, Relevance (Information Retrieval), User Satisfaction (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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