An Evaluation of the Applicability of Ranking Algorithms to Improve the Effectiveness of Full-Text Retrieval. II. On the Effectiveness of Ranking Algorithms on Full-Text Retrieval.

Jung Soon, Ro

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Publication Date: 1988

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An Evaluation of the Applicability of Ranking Algorithms to Improve the Effectiveness of Full-Text Retrieval. II. On the Effectiveness of Ranking Algorithms on Full-Text Retrieval.

Jung Soon, Ro

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v39 n3 p147-60 May 1988

Describes and discusses the findings of an experiment that tested the precision of full-text retrieval enhanced by 29 document term weighting algorithms at the lowest, middle, and highest levels of recall, and compared with the precision of full-text retrieval without algorithms and with paragraph retrieval. (29 references) (Author/CLB)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Online Searching, Performance, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Tables (Data)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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