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Peer reviewedWeisgerber, David W. – Journal of Documentation, 1993
Explains the efforts of the ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) Group on Interdisciplinary Searching to identify and describe problems of interdisciplinary searching and to propose solutions. Problems are summarized in six areas: database coverage and technical content, bibliographic information, textual content,…
Descriptors: Databases, Global Approach, Indexing, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hersh, William R.; Hickman, David H. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Describes a study that compared two information retrieval systems on a full-text medical database: one featured concept-based automatic indexing and statistical retrieval techniques, and the second used traditional word-based Boolean techniques. Evaluation of search results by calculating relative recall and precision is discussed, and user…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods
