Information retrieval systems ; characteristics, testing, and evaluation / [by] F. Wilfrid Lancaster.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wiley,
[1968]
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| Series: | Information sciences series.
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Table of Contents:
- Basic activities of information retrieval
- Subject indexing, index terms, and controlled vocabularies
- Search files and searching mechanisms
- Current awareness function
- Performance criteria for information retrieval systems
- Factors affecting the performance of an information retrieval system
- Index languages, their components and characteristics
- Toward completely mechanized information systems
- Evaluating the operating efficiency of an information retrieval system
- Analysis of the test data
- Interpetation and application of the test data
- Evaluating the economic efficiency of an information retrieval system
- Interaction between an retrieval system and its users
- Searching strategies.