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ERIC Number: EJ450328
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0306-4573
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The State of Retrieval System Evaluation.
Salton, Gerald
Information Processing and Management, v28 n4 p441-49 Jul-Aug 1992
The current state of information retrieval (IR) evaluation is reviewed with criticisms directed at the available test collections and the research and evaluation methodologies used, including precision and recall rates for online searches and laboratory tests not including real users. Automatic text retrieval systems are also discussed. (32 references) (LAE)
Descriptors: Databases, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Thesauri, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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