An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 28 (3), 289-299
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3166.3197
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.Keywords
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