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An Experimental Comparison of the Effectiveness of Computers and Humans as Search Intermediaries.
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Marcus, Richard S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
Controlled experiments conducted to compare effectiveness of enhanced experimental computer intermediary system, CONIT, with that of human expert intermediary search specialists indicate that experimental intermediary techniques are now capable of providing search assistance whose effectiveness at least approximates that of human intermediaries in…
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