Results Relevance

Eduction returns entities based on the extraction rules from the grammars and dictionaries.

The edktool command-line tool includes a test mode to measure the precision and recall of your extraction, to determine the result relevance. This mode allows you to check how well your grammar works on your text data.

Precision and recall are statistical measures that compare the results that a human marks and results that the engine returns. The following terms describe result relevance as used in Eduction.

From these relevance terms, you can determine precision and recall as follows:

For more information about edktool, see Compile and Test Grammars.