IR evaluation

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[edit] IR Evaluation

According to Ellen M. Voorhees, The evaluation of information retrieval system is the process of assessing how well a system meets the information needs of its users

[edit] Recall

Recall = (No of relevant items retrieved / Total relevant items in the collection) * 100

[edit] Precision

Precision = (No of relevant items retrieved/Total no of items retrieved) * 100