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Robertson, S. E.; Beaulieu, M. – Journal of Documentation, 1997
Reviews the development of research and evaluation in information retrieval. Highlights include the Cranfield projects concerning recall and precision, the Medlars experiment that focused on relevance, TREC (Text Retrieval Conference), evaluation versus understanding, interface versus functionality, document length, and terms and user interaction.…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval