Precision and recall are in direct tension.
- Precision and recall are in direct tension.
- These are two terms of art in the information retrieval domain.
- Recall: inclusion in set of results
- Precision: ranking quality within the set of results
- The best solution is to move the curve with quality improvements.
- But you can always trivially tradeoff either to improve the other.
- Every ranking problem has a precision/recall tradeoff.