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An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system
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Volume 28 ,  Issue 3  (March 1985) table of contents
Pages: 289 - 299  
Year of Publication: 1985
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
David C. Blair  The Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M. E. Maron  The Univ. of California, Berkeley
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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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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"Robert G Crawford : Reviewer"

The notion of automatic full-text retrieval is clearly attractive; retrieval is based on automatic searching of documents for those embodying certain subject content. Such a system may involve automatic preprocessing of documents to form indexes  more...

Collaborative Colleagues:
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M. E. Maron: colleagues