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Hansen, Kathleen A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Designed to measure end-users' efficacy in online searching based on their presearch experience with printed literature retrieval systems for the search topic, this experiment examined differences between manual searches preceding electronic searches and vice versa. The results were not statistically significant due to the small sample size.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval)

O'Connor, John – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Explains an experiment in text-searching retrieval for cancer questions which developed and used computer procedures (via human simulation) to select search words from medical dictionaries. This study is based on an earlier one in which search words were humanly selected, and the recall results of the two studies are compared. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Cancer, Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Dictionaries

Oldroyd, B. K. – Online Review, 1984
Identifies characteristics of the experienced online searcher and discusses the results of three searches carried out by a variety of searchers in widely differing subject fields--presence of arsenic in coal, problems of working alone in laboratory or work area, and spectral sensitivity of the insect eye. (8 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Retrieval, Online Systems

Fidel, Raya – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Based on systematic observations of five experienced online searchers, this model compares two searching styles: operationalist, which aims at optimal strategies to achieve precise retrieval and uses a large range of system capabilities, and conceptualist, which analyzes the request by seeking to fit it into a faceted structure. (13 references)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Man Machine Systems

Mahapatra, M.; Biswas, S. C. – International Library Review, 1984
Describes research which measured the efficiency of role operators through frequency of appearances in PRECIS input strings for 200 abstracts related to taxation, genetic psychology, and Shakespearian drama. Frequencies of appearance of major categories of role operators, role operators in different subjects, individual main line operators, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval)

Eastman, Caroline M. – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Summarizes the similarities between classification systems for catalog selection and information retrieval systems, and discusses system characteristics that allow the use of measures such as recall and precision in system evaluation. (27 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Katzer, Jeffrey; And Others – 1986
This project examines anaphora (the linguistic device of abbreviated subsequent reference to a concept) in information retrieval (IR) systems in order to develop procedures to recognize anaphors in text and distinguish between anaphoric and non-anaphoric uses of a given term, estimate the number of anaphors appearing in bibliographic records, and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Algorithms, Classification, Comparative Analysis

Swanson, Don R. – Library Quarterly, 1986
The objective relevance of a document to a request is crucial to the design and testing of bibliographic retrieval systems, while subjective relevance is paramount in the use of such systems. The distinction provides a rationale for a trial-and-error mode of interaction with information systems. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Needs, Information Retrieval

Ro, Jung Soon – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1988
A comparison of the effectiveness of information retrieval based on full-text documents with retrieval based on paragraphs, abstracts, or controlled vocabularies was accomplished using a subset of journal articles with nine search questions. It was found that full-text retrieval achieved significantly higher recall and lower precision than did the…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Evaluation Methods

Murphy, Cynthia E. – Government Information Quarterly, 1985
Examines online and printed equivalents of selected government documents indexes to compare the recall, precision, overlap, and cost effectiveness of online and manual searching. Indexes studied were the Monthly Catalog, CIS (Congressional Information Service) Index, and Government Reports Announcements and Index. (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Databases

Griffiths, Alan; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Reports on comparative study of document classifications produced by use of single linkage, complete linkage, group average, and Ward clustering methods. Findings of work that compares use of clusters consisting of pairs of documents with conventional best match searches are also reported. Thirty-four references are provided. (EJS)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval

Griffiths, Alan; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1984
Considers classifications produced by application of single linkage, complete linkage, group average, and word clustering methods to Keen and Cranfield document test collections, and studies structure of hierarchies produced, extent to which methods distort input similarity matrices during classification generation, and retrieval effectiveness…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Classification, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping

Wang, Yih-Chen; Vandendorpe, James – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1985
Describes design and development of a thesaurus based on lexical-semantic relations, and compares results of experiments with queries enhanced using thesauri based on several different groups of relations against performance with original queries run on IRS information retrieval system developed at Illinois Institute of Technology. Twenty-one…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Research Design

Prade, Henri; Testemale, Claudette – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Compares and expands upon two approaches to dealing with fuzzy relational databases. The proposed similarity measure is based on a fuzzy Hausdorff distance and estimates the mismatch between two possibility distributions using a reduction process. The consequences of the reduction process on query evaluation are studied. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Retrieval, Mathematical Models

Trivison, Donna – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Describes study that compared terminology indexing and citation indexing to determine the similarity of documents retrieved. Information science articles from 1971 to 1983 in three journals were studied for term co-occurrences. The distinction between relevant and pertinent documents is discussed, and further research topics are suggested. (LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Citation Indexes, Comparative Analysis, Indexing