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Information retrieval

two measures of retrieval performance: the share of retrieved documents that are relevant, and the share of all relevant documents that are retrieved.

In information retrieval, precision and recall refers to two measures of retrieval performance: the share of retrieved documents that are relevant, and the share of all relevant documents that are retrieved. This meaning comes from Kent (1955) in American Documentation.[1]

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References

Kent, A., Berry, M. M., Luehrs, F. U., & Perry, J. W. (1955). Machine literature searching VIII. Operational criteria for designing information retrieval systems. American Documentation, 6(2), 93-101. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.5090060209

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