AN EVALUATION OF RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS FOR A FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT-RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

被引:345
作者
BLAIR, DC [1 ]
MARON, ME [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,SCH LIB & INFORMAT STUDIES,BERKELEY,CA 94720
关键词
DATABASE SYSTEMS - Evaluation;
D O I
10.1145/3166.3197
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
This paper describes a large-scale, full-text search and retrieval experiment aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of full-text retrieval. The authors examined IBM's full-text retrieval system, STAIRS. They showed its retrieval effectiveness to be surprisingly poor. They offered theoretical reasons to explain why this poor performance should not be surprising and also why their experimental results are not inconsistent with earlier more favorable results.
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页码:289 / 299
页数:11
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