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Peer reviewedBurnett, John E.; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1979
Analyzes a study of the effect of controlled variations in indexing vocabulary size on retrieval performance, using the Cranfield 200 and 1400 test collections. Sets of variable-length character strings were tested, in an application of the Cluster Hypothesis and in a series of linear associative retrieval experiments. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Evaluation Methods, Indexes, Indexing
Clever, Elaine C. – 1970
A user study to determine the ratio of citation-bound queries to data-bound queries originated by university faculty and processed through reference department personnel or by independent use of reference materials in the university library revealed a majority (75%) of the queries are citation-bound. Important implications are suggested for the…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Citations (References), College Libraries, Faculty
