[Corpora-List] Precision and Recall

[Martin Reynaert]

Hi Federica,

The classical reference is from Information Retrieval. It is an 
instructive read.

@Book{Rijsbergen-75,
   author = {C. J. van Rijsbergen},
   title = {Information Retrieval},
   year = {1975},
   publisher = {Butterworths},
   address = {London}
}

The metrics are also informatively treated in:

@book{Manning-99,
   author =       "C.D. Manning and H. Sch{\"{u}}tze",
   title =        "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing",
   publisher =    "MIT Press",
   address =      "Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England",
   year =         "1999",
}

As it happens, I will be presenting a paper advocating these metrics for 
the evaluation of spelling and OCR error correction at LREC-2008.

Martin Reynaert
ILK
Tilburg University
The Netherlands


fb27 wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> can anyone point me to a reference (possibly classic, or at least well-known) 
> where I can find definitions of "precision" and "recall" as they are used in 
> corpus linguistics studies?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any leads.
> 
> Federica
> 
> 
> 
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