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Automatic ranked output from boolean searches in SIRE

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  • Terry Noreault
  • Matthew Koll
  • Michael J. McGill

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This study examined the effectiveness and efficiency of employing a fully automatic algorithm for ranking the results of Boolean searches of an inverted file design document retrieval system. The study indicated that with minor modification of file designs, such as those implemented in the Syracuse Information Retrieval Experiment (SIRE), document retrieval systems could efficiently provide users with output lists on which the rank order of a document is a good indicator of its probable relevance to the user's information need. The study found that relevant documents were ranked significantly higher than nonrelevant documents in the set of documents retrieved in response to a Boolean query. By utilizing an augmented inverted file design the variable incremental cost for ranked output was only ten cents per query. There was no increased user effort.

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  • Terry Noreault & Matthew Koll & Michael J. McGill, 1977. "Automatic ranked output from boolean searches in SIRE," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 28(6), pages 333-339, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:28:y:1977:i:6:p:333-339
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.4630280605
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    1. Malcolm Dow & Peter Willett & Roderick McDonald & Belver Griffith & Michael Greenacre & Peter Bryant & Daniel Wartenberg & Ove Frank, 1987. "Book reviews," Journal of Classification, Springer;The Classification Society, vol. 4(2), pages 245-278, September.

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