{"title":"A mathematical investigation on retrieval performance evaluation measures of information retrieval algorithm","authors":"Song Jun-feng, Zhang Wei-ming, Xiao Wei-dong","doi":"10.1109/ITCC.2005.14","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Retrieval performance evaluation measures of information retrieval algorithm are the foundation of evaluating and improving information retrieval algorithm. In this paper precision and recall are analyzed mathematically, and a theorem is proved: a good IR algorithm will make precision and recall to be maximal at the same time in an ideal vector space, then a new general evaluation measure based on this theorem is proposed to evaluate information retrieval algorithm.","PeriodicalId":326887,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II","volume":"500 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2005.14","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Retrieval performance evaluation measures of information retrieval algorithm are the foundation of evaluating and improving information retrieval algorithm. In this paper precision and recall are analyzed mathematically, and a theorem is proved: a good IR algorithm will make precision and recall to be maximal at the same time in an ideal vector space, then a new general evaluation measure based on this theorem is proposed to evaluate information retrieval algorithm.