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Natural language vs. Boolean query evaluation: a comparison of retrieval performance

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Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Dublin, Ireland

Pages: 212 - 220

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-387-19889-X

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Howard Turtle

West Publishing Co., Eagan, MN

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AICA : Assoc Italianai de Calcolo Automatico
BCS-IRSG : BCS/Information Retrieval Specialist Group
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Dublin City University : Dublin City University
Irish Comp Soc : Irish Computer Society
BCS-IRSB : BCS-IRSB

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Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
Subjects: Search process

General Terms:
Experimentation, Languages, Performance

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Boolean query formulation has long been the traditional technique for searching text databases, despite the difficulties many users have in stating their information needs in terms of this formal logic. This paper describes the results of expe more...

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