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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL EXPERIMENT

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Karen Sparck Jones 		1

Part 1

Testing in general

7
Chapter 2 The methodology of information retrieval experiment
Stephen E. Robertson 		9
3 Retrieval Effectiveness
Cornelis J. van Rijsbergen 		32
4 Ineffable concepts in information retrieval
Nicholas J. Belkin 		44
5 The pragmatics of information retrieval
experimentation
Jean M. Tague 		59

Part 2

Types of test

103
Chapter 6 Evaluation within the environment of an operating
information service
F. Wilfrid Lancaster 		105
7 Opportunities for testing with online systems
Elizabeth D. Barraclough 		128
8 Laboratory tests of manual systems
E. Michael Keen 		136
9 Laboratory tests: automatic systems
Robert N. Oddy 		156
10 Simulation, and simulation experiments
Michael D. Heine 		179
11 Gedanken experimentation: An alternative to tradi-
tional system testing?
William S. Cooper 		199

Part 3

Actual tests

211
Chapter 12 Retrieval system tests 1958-1978
Karen Sparck Jones 		213
13 The Cranfield tests
Karen Sparck Jones 		256
14 An experiment: search strategy variations in SDI
profiles
Lynn Evans 		285
15 The Smart environment for retrieval system evalua-
tion - advantages and problem areas
Gerard Salton 		316
Bibliography 330
Index 343
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Date updated: Friday, 13-Apr-2001 08:56:06 EDT
Date created:  Monday, 18-Sept-00