The evaluation of large information retrieval systems with application to MEDLARS

The MEDLARS system consists of a large file of indexed references with facilities for retrieving all references indexed by a specified combination of index terms. Were the file small the retrieval performance of the system could be evaluated by asking a number of system users to inspect the entire f...

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Main Author: Miller, W. L.
Published: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 1970
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.465712