ON THE INVERSE RELATIONSHIP OF RECALL AND PRECISION

Cleverdon. (1972). ON THE INVERSE RELATIONSHIP OF RECALL AND PRECISION. Journal of Documentation.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1972

DOI

10.1108/eb026538

DOI registrant

Emerald

Link

https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026538

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  • Coarsening or refining the granularity of the topical value list predicts a shift in recall versus precision on topical queries while leaving the other axes' behavior untouched

    This sourceCleverdon's modified hypothesis states an inverse relationship between recall and precision when searches are averaged in decreasing expected precision.

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    “there is an inverse relationship between recall and precision, if the results of a number of different searches are averaged”

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