• DocumentCode
    747313
  • Title

    Effective text retrieval based on combining evidence from the corpus and users

  • Author

    Croft, W. Bruce

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    12/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    63
  • Abstract
    The author surveys the representation, query processing and retrieval techniques used in the Inquery system. By combining evidence about relevance from the corpus, individual documents and users, Inquery achieves effective overall recall and precision evaluation while avoiding occasional major failures
  • Keywords
    Bayes methods; case-based reasoning; deductive databases; full-text databases; knowledge representation; query processing; relevance feedback; system recovery; Inquery system; corpus-based evidence; document-based evidence; evidential reasoning; failure avoidance; information retrieval techniques; knowledge representation; precision evaluation; query processing; recall; relevance evidence; text retrieval; user-based evidence; Aging; Feedback; Indexing; Information retrieval; Intelligent systems; Libraries; Measurement standards; System performance; Testing; Usability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IEEE Expert
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-9000
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/64.483253
  • Filename
    483253
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=747313