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Peer reviewedGordon, Michael D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Describes a simulation method for estimating recall and fallout in a document retrieval system. Earlier research on simulating document retrieval systems is reviewed, examples are presented of the current method, a probabilistic justification of the method is given, theoretical concerns dealing with retrieval precision are discussed, and further…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Documentation, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval
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
