IRE Information Retrieval Experiment Contributors contributors Butterworth & Company Karen Sparck Jones All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying and recording, without the written permission of the copyright holder, application for which should be addressed to the Publishers. Such written permission must also be obtained before any part of this publication is stored in a retrieval system of any nature. vi Contributors Karen Sparck Jones Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Jean M. Tague School of Library and Information Science University of Western Ontario