A SURVEY ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MEASURES FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
S. Sathya Bama, Mohiuddin Ahmed, A. Saravanan · 2015
information to the users. To make the search effective, a tool called search engine has been introduced. These engines crawl the web for the given users query and display the results to the user based on the relevance score (ranking). Different search engine employs different ranking algorithm. Many ranking algorithm is being introduced frequently by several researchers. Several metrics are available to assess the quality of the ranked web pages. This paper presents a survey on different evaluation measures that are available for information retrieval systems and search engines. Several illustrations are provided for all these metrics.