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Sparck Jones has carried on this work using measures of association between keywords based on their frequency of co occurrence that is,the frequency with which any two keywords occur together in the same document
...The term information structure for want of better words covers specifically a logical organisation of information,such as document representatives,for the purpose of information retrieval
...The organisation of these files is produced by an automatic classification method
...Evaluation of retrieval systems has proved extremely difficult
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automatic and interactive retrieval system?Studies to gauge this are going on but results are hard to interpret
...It should be apparent now that in evaluating an information retrieval system we are mainly concerned with providing data so that users can make a decision as to 1 whether they want such a system social question and 2 whether it will be worth it
...The second question what to evaluate?boils down to what can we measure that will reflect the ability of the system to satisfy the user
...1 The coverage of the collection,that is,the extent to which the system includes relevant matter;2 the time lag,that is,the average interval between the time the search request is made and the time an answer is given;3 the form of presentation of the output;4 the effort involved on the part of the user in obtaining answers to his search requests;5 the recall of the system,that is,the proportion of relevant material actually retrieved in answer to a search request;6 the precision of the system,that is,the proportion of retrieved material that is actually relevant
...It is claimed that 1 4 are readily assessed
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In the past there has been much debate about the validity of evaluations based on relevance judgments provided by erring human beings
...Effectiveness and efficiency Much of the research and development in information retrieval is aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of retrieval
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system so that if we were to adopt [[Delta]]as a measure of effectiveness we could be throwing away vital information needed to make an extrapolation to the performance of other systems
...The Cooper model expected search length In 1968,Cooper [20]stated:The primary function of a retrieval system is conceived to be that of saving its users to as great an extent as is possible,the labour of perusing and discarding irrelevant documents,in their search for relevant ones
...a only one relevant document is wanted;b some arbitrary number n is wanted;c all relevant documents are wanted;4 a given proportion of the relevant documents is wanted,etc
...Thus,the index is a measure of performance for a query of given type
...The output of a search strategy is assumed to be a weak ordering of documents
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The structure of the book The introduction presents some basic background material,demarcates the subject and discusses loosely some of the problems in IR
...The two major chapters are those dealing with automatic classification and evaluation
...Outline Chapter 2:Automatic Text Analysis contains a straightforward discussion of how the text of a document is represented inside a computer
...Chapter 3:Automatic Classification looks at automatic classification methods in general and then takes a deeper look at the use of these methods in information retrieval
...Chapter 4:File Structures here we try and discuss file structures from the point of view of someone primarily interested in information retrieval
...Chapter 5:Search Strategies gives an account of some search strategies when applied to document collections structured in different ways
...Chapter 6:Probabilistic Retrieval describes a formal model for enhancing retrieval effectiveness by using sample information about the |