An approach to the evaluation of catalog selection systems

摘要

The similarities between classification systems for catalog selection and information retrieval systems indicate that similar evaluation methodologies might well be appropriate. The characteristics of classification systems and of information retrieval systems are summarized and two catalog selection systems (GRANT and Grundy) are presented as examples. The contributions of this article are a discussion of the system characteristics that allow the use of measures such as recall and precision in evaluation and a brief overview of related research within the field of information retrieval.