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ERIC Number: EJ420320
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8231
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All the Right Words: Finding What You Want as a Function of Richness of Indexing Vocabulary.
Gomez, Louis M.; And Others
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v41 n8 p547-59 Dec 1990
Reports on a study of index term selection techniques in a small experimental keyword information retrieval system. Two experiments are described which show that user success is improved by increasing the number of terms per object used. Implications for larger databases are considered. (22 references) (EAM)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Databases, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms, User Satisfaction (Information)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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