Evaluation of Information Retrieval System (IRS)

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026 Open access

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Authors: Smriti Sarkar, Jadavpur University, Avik Roy
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18490096
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Abstract

Contents 1. What are the parameters for evaluating and IRS (Information Retrieval Systems)? 2. What is Recall? Here is it calculated? 3. What is Precision? Here is it calculated? 4. What is Fall out? How does it differ from recall? 5. What is Generality? 6. Is there any parameter for evaluating IRS (Information Retrieval Systems)? 7. What are the limitations of recall and precision? 8. Write down the names of information scientists pertaining to the evaluation of an IRS?

Fields of Study & Subjects

Information Retrieval and Search Behavior Library Science and Information scientometrics and bibliometrics research

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
5 February 2026