Abstract
Using precise measures of filtering performance allows a system user, manager, or designer to:
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▪ describe what happened in the past,
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▪ predict what will happen in the future,
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▪ determine whether one method is better than another, and
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▪ determine whether performance is at its best.
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
—George Bernard Shaw
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Losee, R.M. (1998). Measuring Performance. In: Text Retrieval and Filtering. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5705-0_4
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