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
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