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All the right words: Finding what you want as a function of richness of indexing vocabulary

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  • Louis M. Gomez
  • Carol C. Lochbaum
  • Thomas K. Landauer

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The implications of index‐word selection strategies for user success in interactive searching were investigated in two experiments. People were asked to find target information objects using a simple interactive keyword information retrieval system in which the number of referent terms assigned to each object was systematically varied. The results demonstrate that searcher success is markedly improved by greatly increasing the number of names per object. © 1990 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Louis M. Gomez & Carol C. Lochbaum & Thomas K. Landauer, 1990. "All the right words: Finding what you want as a function of richness of indexing vocabulary," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 41(8), pages 547-559, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:41:y:1990:i:8:p:547-559
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199012)41:83.0.CO;2-P
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    1. Alex Bordetsky & Gloria Mark, 2000. "Memory-Based Feedback Controls to Support Groupware Coordination," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 11(4), pages 366-385, December.

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