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Sievert, M.E.; McKinin, E.J.: Why full-text misses some relevant documents : an analysis of documents not retrieved by CCML or MEDIS (1989)
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- Abstract
- Searches conducted as part of the MEDLINE/Full-Text Research Project revealed that the full-text data bases of clinical medical journal articles (CCML (Comprehensive Core Medical Library) from BRS Information Technologies, and MEDIS from Mead Data Central) did not retrieve all the relevant citations. An analysis of the data indicated that 204 relevant citations were retrieved only by MEDLINE. A comparison of the strategies used on the full-text data bases with the text of the articles of these 204 citations revealed that 2 reasons contributed to these failure. The searcher often constructed a restrictive strategy which resulted in the loss of relevant documents; and as in other kinds of retrieval, the problems of natural language caused the loss of relevant documents.
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- 9. 1.1996 10:22:31
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- ASIS'89. Managing information and technology. Proceedings of the 52nd annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington D.C., 30.10.-2.11.1989. Vol.26. Ed.by J. Katzer and G.B. Newby
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Laegreid, J.A.: SIFT: a Norwegian information retrieval system (1993)
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- 23. 1.1999 19:22:09
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Reinisch, F.: Wer suchet - der findet? : oder Die Überwindung der sprachlichen Grenzen bei der Suche in Volltextdatenbanken (2000)
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- 22. 7.2000 17:48:06
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Zillmann, H.: OSIRIS und eLib : Information Retrieval und Search Engines in Full-text Databases (2001)
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- 14. 6.2001 12:22:31
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Dambeck, H.; Engler, T.: Gesucht und gefunden : Neun Volltext-Suchprogramme für den Desktop (2002)
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Ellis, D.; Furner, J.; Willett, P.: On the creation of hypertext links in full-text documents : measurement of retrieval effectiveness (1996)
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- Abstract
- An important stage in the process or retrieval of objects from a hypertext database is the creation of a set of internodal links that are intended to represent the relationships existing between objects; this operation is often undertaken manually, just as index terms are often manually assigned to documents in a conventional retrieval system. In an earlier article (1994), the results were published of a study in which several different sets of links were inserted, each by a different person, between the paragraphs of each of a number of full-text documents. These results showed little similarity between the link-sets, a finding that was comparable with those of studies of inter-indexer consistency, which suggest that there is generally only a low level of agreement between the sets of index terms assigned to a document by different indexers. In this article, a description is provided of an investigation into the nature of the relationship existing between (i) the levels of inter-linker consistency obtaining among the group of hypertext databases used in our earlier experiments, and (ii) the levels of effectiveness of a number of searches carried out in those databases. An account is given of the implementation of the searches and of the methods used in the calculation of numerical values expressing their effectiveness. Analysis of the results of a comparison between recorded levels of consistency and those of effectiveness does not allow us to draw conclusions about the consistency - effectiveness relationship that are equivalent to those drawn in comparable studies of inter-indexer consistency
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(1996) no.4, S.287-300
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Ro, J.S.: ¬An evaluation of the applicability of ranking algorithms to improve the effectiveness of full-text retrieval : 1. On the effectiveness of full-text retrieval (1988)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 39(1988), S.73-78
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Meunier, J.-G.; Bertrand-Gastaldy, S.; Lebel, H.: ¬A call for enhanced representation of content as a means of improving online full-text retrieval (1987)
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- Abstract
- Given the phenomena of growth and diversification which affect both text databases and their users, it is essential to reflect on the nature of textual information and its representation within the very particular framework of interactive retrieval systems. The latter aim to correlate two types of conceptual structures, that of the user and that of the text, by way of a third structure - the interface. A typology of levels, of representation is proposed (typographical, lexical, statistical, linguistic, semiotic, and pragmatic). These representations, obtained by means of a multiplicity of strategies (intra-sentence, intratextual, intertextual) applied to different units of information and interrelated, render the interaction between diverse users and the database more flexible and more adaptable
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Poler, E.M.: Overcoming limitations in database searches (1992)
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- Abstract
- Describes the advantages of full text databases and full text searching, particularly in the context of law databases, the drawbacks to such searching in terms of recall, precision and errors, and methods of overcoming some of these problems
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Böhle, K.; Riehm, U.: German fulltexts in working contexts : empirical findings on how end-users make use of fulltext databases (1989)
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- Abstract
- Reports the result of a brief review of West German full text data bases and a user survey of over 40 users in the fields of medicine, law and economics. Questions common assumptions about the advantages and disadvantages of full text data bases.
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- Online Information 89. Proceedings of the 13th International Online Information Meeting, London, 12-14 December 1989
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Dow Jones unveils knowledge indexing system (1997)
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- Abstract
- Dow Jones Interactive Publishing has developed a sophisticated automatic knowledge indexing system that will allow searchers of the Dow Jones News / Retrieval service to get highly targeted results from a search in the service's Publications Library. Instead of relying on a thesaurus of company names, the new system uses a combination of that basic algorithm plus unique rules based on the editorial styles of individual publications in the Library. Dow Jones have also announced its acceptance of the definitions of 'selected full text' and 'full text' from Bibliodata's Fulltext Sources Online directory
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Wildemuth, B.M.: Measures of success in searching a full-text fact base (1990)
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- Abstract
- The traditional measures of online searching proficiency (recall and precision) are less appropriate when applied to the searching of full text databases. The pilot study investigated and evaluated 5 measures of overall success in searching a full text data bank. Data was drawn from INQUIRER searches conducted by medical students at North Carolina Univ. at Chapel Hill. INQUIRER ia an online database of facts and concepts in microbiology. The 5 measures were: success/failure; precision; search term overlap; number of search cycles; and time per search. Concludes that the last 4 measures look promising for the evaluation of fact data bases such as ENQUIRER
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- ASIS'90: Information in the year 2000, from research to applications. Proc. of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Toronto, Canada, 4.-8.11.1990. Ed. by Diana Henderson
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Hane, P.J.: AOL acquires Personal Library Software (1998)
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- Abstract
- In Jan 1997 AOL annouced its acquisition of Personal Library Software, a leading developer of information indexing and search technologies, which are at the core of online a CD-ROM products from major providers such as Dow Jones and Knight Ridder. AOL is the world's leading Internet online service. Quotes the company heads concerning the advantages of the deal for searchers but reports that no specific details of its terms have been released. Outlines the history of the companies focusing on the role of Matthew Koll founder of Personal Library Software and now joining AOL and the reactions of information professionals
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Huang, Y.-L.: ¬A theoretic and empirical research of cluster indexing for Mandarine Chinese full text document (1998)
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- Abstract
- Since most popular commercialized systems for full text retrieval are designed with full text scaning and Boolean logic query mode, these systems use an oversimplified relationship between the indexing form and the content of document. Reports the use of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to develop a Cluster Indexing Model (CIM) based on a Vector Space Model (VSM) in orer to explore the index theory of cluster indexing for chinese full text documents. From a series of experiments, it was found that the indexing performance of CIM is better than traditional VSM, and has almost equivalent effectiveness of the authority control of index terms
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- Bulletin of library and information science. 1998, no.24, S.44-68
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Sievert, M.C.: Full-text information retrieval : introduction (1996)
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- Abstract
- Introduces a special section devoted to full text information retrieval. Gives an overview of full text databases and research into them. There is a lack of a single definition of full text. Articles in the library related literature about full text have appeared with increasing frequnecy
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(1996) no.4, S.261-262
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Bernstein, L.M.; Williamson, R.E.: Testing of a natural language retrieval system for a full text knowledge base (1984)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 35(1984), S.235-247
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Couvreur, T.R.; Benzel, R.N.; Miller, S.F.; Zeitler, D.N.; Lee, D.L.; Singhal, M.; Shivaratri, N.; Wong, W.Y.P.: ¬An analysis of performance and cost factors in searching large text databases using parallel search systems (1994)
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- Abstract
- The results of modelling the performance of searching large text databases (>10 GBytes) via various parallel hardware architectures and search algorithms are discussed. The performance under load and the cost of each configuration are compared. Strengths, weaknesses, performance sensitivities, and search features supported for each configuration are also addressed. In addition, a common search workload used in the modelling is described. The search workload is derived from a set of searches run against the Chemical Abstracts file of bibliographic and abstract text available on STN International. This common workload is applied to all configurations modelled to provide a common basis of comparison
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 45(1994) no.7, S.443-464
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Godby, J.: Two techniques for the identification of phrases in full text (1995)
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- Annual review of OCLC research. 1995, S.28-31
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Gross, T.; Taylor, A.G.; Joudrey, D.N.: Still a lot to lose : the role of controlled vocabulary in keyword searching (2015)
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- Abstract
- In their 2005 study, Gross and Taylor found that more than a third of records retrieved by keyword searches would be lost without subject headings. A review of the literature since then shows that numerous studies, in various disciplines, have found that a quarter to a third of records returned in a keyword search would be lost without controlled vocabulary. Other writers, though, have continued to suggest that controlled vocabulary be discontinued. Addressing criticisms of the Gross/Taylor study, this study replicates the search process in the same online catalog, but after the addition of automated enriched metadata such as tables of contents and summaries. The proportion of results that would be lost remains high.
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Kristensen, J.: Expanding end-users' query statements for free text searching with a search-aid thesaurus (1993)
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- Abstract
- Tests the effectiveness of a thesaurus as a search-aid in free text searching of a full text database. A set of queries was searched against a large full text database of newspaper articles. The thesaurus contained equivalence, hierarchical and associative relationships. Each query was searched in five modes: basic search, synonym search, narrower term search, related term search, and union of all previous searches. The searches were analyzed in terms of relative recall and precision
