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Peer reviewedWade, Stephen; And Others – Online Review, 1988
A comparative evaluation of two computerized reference retrieval systems, INSTRUCT (a statistically-based system) and PLEXUS (a knowledge-based system) examined their retrieval effectiveness for a set of 19 queries and 512 documents on gardening. Best results were obtained by using terms suggested by PLEXUS as the basis for an INSTRUCT search. (36…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Expert Systems, Information Retrieval
