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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
