Abstract
An evaluation of a large, operational full-text document-retrieval system (containing roughly 350,000 pages of text) shows the system to be retrieving less than 20 percent of the documents relevant to a particular search. The findings are discussed in terms of the theory and practice of full-text document retrieval.
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Information retrievalComputer scienceDocument retrievalText retrievalDocument clusteringHuman–computer information retrievalRelevance (law)Search engineArtificial intelligenceCluster analysis
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- 1985
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- article
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 289-299
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David C. Blair,
M. E. Maron
(1985).
An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system.
Communications of the ACM
, 28
(3)
, 289-299.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3166.3197
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- 10.1145/3166.3197