• DocumentCode
    1299369
  • Title

    Precision-Recall Is Wrong for Multimedia

  • Author

    Slaney, Malcolm

  • Author_Institution
    Yahoo! Research and Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    3/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    Precision-recall is not the right metric. There, I´ve said it. I´m not the first to say this in regard to information retrieval, but my reasons are different because we are working with multimedia objects.
  • Keywords
    information retrieval; multimedia systems; information retrieval; multimedia objects; precision-recall; Information theory; Multimedia communication; Search engines; weighted subspace filtering; IEEE MultiMedia; Visions and Views; evaluation; multimedia; precision; recall; relevance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    MultiMedia, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1070-986X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MMUL.2011.50
  • Filename
    5986510