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An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system

By David C. Blair, M. E. Maron
Communications of the ACM, March 1985, Vol. 28 No. 3, Pages 289-299
10.1145/3166.3197
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An evaluation of a large, operational full-text document-retrieval system (containing roughly 350,000 pages of text) shows the system to be retrieving less than 20 percent of the documents relevant to a particular search. The findings are discussed in terms of the theory and practice of full-text document retrieval.

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