C5: IR Evaluation
Objectives
This module provides basic understanding IR Evaluation. After completing this module, students will have general knowledge about performance metrics and evaluations issues on benchmark text collections.
Description
The topics covered in this module include:
- Performance metrics such as recall, precision, and F-measure.
- Evaluations on benchmark text collections.
Class Notes
- IR Evaluation [flash] | [Windows Media] | [.ppt] | [.doc] | [.pdf]
Suggested Readings and Resources
In the Books
- Chapter 3 of textbook Modern Information Retrieval, written by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, ISBN: 0-201-39829-X, Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1999.
