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Information Retrieval Experiment
Laboratory tests: automatic systems
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Robert N. Oddy
Butterworth & Company
Karen Sparck Jones
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we should not be satisfied with this. What I think we need is an equally
fruitful interaction between theory development and a new type of automated
laboratory, closer to real life information retrieval services, where we can
perhaps test models of human users in conjunction with theories of document
collections.
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