Title :
Precision-Recall Is Wrong for Multimedia
Author_Institution :
Yahoo! Research and Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
fDate :
3/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MMUL.2011.50
