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that in IR we are searching for relevant documents as opposed to exactly matching items
...Many automatic information retrieval systems are experimental
...Many of the techniques I shall discuss will not have proved themselves incontrovertibly superior to all other techniques,but they have promise and their promise will only be realised when they are understood
...My aim throughout has been to give a complete coverage of the more important ideas current in various special areas of information retrieval
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