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Research and Evaluation in Information Retrieval.

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Robertson, S. E.; Beaulieu, M. – Journal of Documentation, 1997

Reviews the development of research and evaluation in information retrieval. Highlights include the Cranfield projects concerning recall and precision, the Medlars experiment that focused on relevance, TREC (Text Retrieval Conference), evaluation versus understanding, interface versus functionality, document length, and terms and user interaction.…

Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval

Overview of the Okapi Projects.

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Robertson, S. E. – Journal of Documentation, 1997

Describes the Okapi projects and the work of the Centre for Interactive Systems Research at the City University of London (England). Okapi, an experimental text retrieval system, has been used as the basis for a series of projects addressing aspects of user information-seeking behavior and user-system interaction, as well as system design.…

Descriptors: Computer System Design, Electronic Text, Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval