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Peer reviewedTurtle, Howard; Flood, James – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Discusses two query evaluation strategies used in large text retrieval systems: (1) term-at-a-time; and (2) document-at-a-time. Describes optimization techniques that can reduce query evaluation costs. Presents simulation results that compare the performance of these optimization techniques when applied to natural language query evaluation. (JMV)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
