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The State of Retrieval System Evaluation.
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Salton, Gerald – Information Processing and Management, 1992
The current state of information retrieval (IR) evaluation is reviewed with criticisms directed at the available test collections and the research and evaluation methodologies used, including precision and recall rates for online searches and laboratory tests not including real users. Automatic text retrieval systems are also discussed. (32…
Descriptors: Databases, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval Techniques.
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Kantor, Paul B. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1994
Identifies current trends in the automation of indexing, of information retrieval, and of interaction between the system and the users. Topics discussed include location, navigation, and indexing; digital libraries; matching documents to queries; weight of concepts; query structure, including fuzzy sets; algorithms; stemming; clustering; users'…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society)
Information Retrieval Today. Revised, Retitled, and Expanded Edition.
Lancaster, F. Wilfrid; Warner, Amy J. – 1993
The emphasis of this text is that the problems of information retrieval are the intellectual ones of subject analysis and description. These problems are not easily solved by technology alone, although certain inroads are being made by knowledge-based expert systems and other computer aids to indexing. Linguistic approaches are also showing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers
Indexing and Retrieval for the Web.
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Rasmussen, Edie M. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2003
Explores current research on indexing and ranking as retrieval functions of search engines on the Web. Highlights include measuring search engine stability; evaluation of Web indexing and retrieval; Web crawlers; hyperlinks for indexing and ranking; ranking for metasearch; document structure; citation indexing; relevance; query evaluation;…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval