A Decision Theory View of the Information Retrieval Situation: An Operations Research Approach.

Kraft, Donald H.

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Publication Date: 1973

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A Decision Theory View of the Information Retrieval Situation: An Operations Research Approach

Kraft, Donald H.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24, 5, 368-376, Sep-Oct 73

A decision theory approach is used to model the information retrieval decision problem of which documents to retrieve from a library collection in response to a specific user query for information. Thorough discussions of decision theory and Bayesian statistics are presented. (19 references) (Author/SJ)

Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making, Evaluation, Information Retrieval, Information Theory, Operations Research, Relevance (Information Retrieval)

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