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Peer reviewedRobertson, Alexander M.; Willett, Peter – Journal of Documentation, 1996
Describes a genetic algorithm (GA) that assigns weights to query terms in a ranked-output document retrieval system. Experiments showed the GA often found weights slightly superior to those produced by deterministic weighting (F4). Many times, however, the two methods gave the same results and sometimes the F4 results were superior, indicating…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Online Searching
