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Re:Alexandria Search by marginalia_nu on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:25PM (#30727070)
There are benchmarks within the adjacent field of information retrieval, but in general it's hard to properly validate a search engine because real data is so noisy and misbehaved, and sample data is so different from real data.
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Re:Alexandria Search by kreeben on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:30PM (#30727123)
Sure, the problem of information retrieval is not exactly that of web search but they're pretty close. So, from such a knowledgeable person such as yourself, when it comes to this topic, could you remind us, what are some of those benchmarks?
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Re:Alexandria Search by marginalia_nu on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:33PM (#30727155)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall

For some standard corpus.

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Re:Alexandria Search by kreeben on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:34PM (#30727170)
>> Precision and recall

The phrase I was looking for. Thx a bunch! Gonna marginalia that now.

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Re:Alexandria Search by marginalia_nu on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:47PM (#30727314)
Haha, ironically it lacks both precision and recall for that topic.
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