Map
Index
Random
Help
th

Quote: if two scientists judge relevance of a document, only 60% agreement

topics > all references > references c-d > QuoteRef: clevC4_1984 , p. 38



Topic:
problem of assigning names
Topic:
information retrieval by relevance
Topic:
thesaurus and information retrieval

Quotation Skeleton

There has been the failure to realize and … 1) if two people or groups of people … be common to both thesauri [private communication]; 2) if … index terms may be common to the two … [Borko, H. 1979, 7th Cranfield conf.]; 3) if two intermediaries search the same question on the … both searches [Cleverdon, C.W.1977 tech report]; 4) if two scientists or … question, the area of agreement may not exceed … [Cleverdon, C.W. 1970, tech report; Lesk ME and Salton G 1968 tech report]   Google-1   Google-2

Copyright clearance needed for quotation.

Additional Titles

Quote: retrieval of bibliographic citations has a strong, random component
Quote: when two people construct a thesaurus only 60% agreement
Quote: only 30% agreement when indexing a document
Quote: when two people search a database, only 40% of output is common

Related Topics up

Topic: problem of assigning names (25 items)
Topic: information retrieval by relevance (32 items)
Topic: thesaurus and information retrieval (29 items)

Copyright © 2002-2008 by C. Bradford Barber. All rights reserved.
Thesa is a trademark of C. Bradford Barber.