Term Relevance Feedback and Mediated Database Searching: Implications for Information Retrieval Practice and Systems Design.

Spink, Amanda

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ERIC Number: EJ499858

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Term Relevance Feedback and Mediated Database Searching: Implications for Information Retrieval Practice and Systems Design.

Spink, Amanda

Information Processing & Management, v31 n2 p161-71 Mar-Apr 1995

This study uses the human approach to examine the sources and effectiveness of search terms selected during 40 mediated interactive database searches and focuses on determining the retrieval effectiveness of search terms identified by users and intermediaries from retrieved items during term relevance feedback. (Author/JKP)

Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Intermediaries, Search Strategies, Systems Analysis, Tables (Data), Users (Information)

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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