SP500215
NIST Special Publication 500-215: The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
Knowledge-Based Searching with TOPIC
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J. Lehman
C. Reid
National Institute of Standards and Technology
D. K. Harman
reasonable to examine, at least for selected topics,
whether the first ten/best ten documents address the
domain well from a domain "precision/recall"
perspective. To the extent that the domain is well served
in a few representative documents, the coverage in the
representative documents may be a "better" answer for
the user than the numerical count of the number relevant
in the first 1000. We recommend adding a measurement
of the coverage of the domain as the first ten/thirty/n
results documents are examined.
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