{"id":4973,"date":"2017-06-23T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/?post_type=entity&#038;p=4973"},"modified":"2017-06-27T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:50:09","slug":"precision-and-recall","status":"publish","type":"entity","link":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/precision-and-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Precision and recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"NLP\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/natural-language-processing\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/natural_language_processing;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05flf;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Natural_language_processing;http:\/\/be.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u0410\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0446\u043e\u045e\u043a\u0430_\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u0439_\u043c\u043e\u0432\u044b;http:\/\/ru.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430_\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e_\u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430;http:\/\/pt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Processamento_de_linguagem_natural;http:\/\/bg.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430_\u043d\u0430_\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d_\u0435\u0437\u0438\u043a;http:\/\/lt.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Nat\u016bralios_kalbos_apdorojimas;http:\/\/fr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Traitement_automatique_du_langage_naturel;http:\/\/uk.dbpedia.org\/resource\/\u041e\u0431\u0440\u043e\u0431\u043a\u0430_\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0457_\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438;http:\/\/id.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Pemrosesan_bahasa_alami;http:\/\/ca.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Processament_de_llenguatge_natural;http:\/\/sr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Obrada_prirodnih_jezika;http:\/\/en.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Natural_language_processing;http:\/\/is.dbpedia.org\/resource\/M\u00e1lgreining;http:\/\/it.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Elaborazione_del_linguaggio_naturale;http:\/\/es.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Procesamiento_de_lenguajes_naturales;http:\/\/cs.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Zpracov\u00e1n\u00ed_p\u0159irozen\u00e9ho_jazyka;http:\/\/pl.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Przetwarzanie_j\u0119zyka_naturalnego;http:\/\/ro.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Prelucrarea_limbajului_natural;http:\/\/da.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Sprogteknologi;http:\/\/tr.dbpedia.org\/resource\/Do\u011fal_dil_i\u015fleme\" >natural language processing<\/a>, <strong>precision and recall are used to determine the accuracy<\/strong> of an entity based text analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Say you write an article and then you run WordLift&#8217;s text analysis to detect the entities which are relevant in that exact context. 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