Does Indexing Exhaustively Matter?.

Sparck Jones, Karen

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Publication Date: 1973

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Does Indexing Exhaustively Matter?

Sparck Jones, Karen

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24, 5, 313-316, Sep-Oct 73

Experiments with two distinct collections, using three levels of indexing exhaustively for both documents and requests, show that substantially the same performance is obtained for very different levels of document indexing, if suitable choices are made of request level. (6 references) (Author)

Descriptors: Experiments, Indexing, Information Processing, Information Science

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