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Peer reviewedRada, Roy; Bicknell, Ellen – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989
Describes exploratory experiments in evaluating and improving a thesaurus through studying its effect on retrieval. A formula was developed to measure the conceptual distance between queries and documents encoded as sets of thesaurus terms. Comparison to the performance of people judging conceptual distance shows that the formula accurately…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Simulation, Evaluation Methods, Indexing
