Quote: the fallacy of abundance: in a large information retrieval system, it is hard to write reasonable queries that do not retrieve at least some relevant documents
Topic: problems with information retrieval
Topic: information retrieval by relevance
Topic: probability assessment
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Swanson observed some time ago that on a … In fact, it is hard to write reasonable … abundance." [Swanson, D.R. 1960, Science 132:1960-1104].
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