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In the past there has been much debate about the validity of evaluations based on relevance judgments provided by erring human beings
...Effectiveness and efficiency Much of the research and development in information retrieval is aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of retrieval
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There has been much debate in the past as to whether precision and recall are in fact the appropriate quantities to use as measures of effectiveness
...1 the most commonly used pair;2 fairly well understood quantities
...The final question How to evaluate?has a large technical answer
...Before proceeding to the technical details relating to the measurement of effectiveness it is as well to examine more closely the concept of relevance which underlies it
...Relevance Relevance is a subjective notion
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language input and storage more feasible
...The reader will have noticed that already,the idea of relevance has slipped into the discussion
...Intellectually it is possible for a human to establish the relevance of a document to a query
...An information retrieval system Let me illustrate by means of a black box what a typical IR system would look like
...Starting with the input side of things
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