Retrieval testing by the comparison of statistically independent retrieval methods

W. John Wilbur

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992, vol. 43, issue 5, 358-370

Abstract: A procedure for retrieval testing is developed which is based on the comparison of statistically independent methods of retrieval applied to the same database. This is, in essence, a form of relative retrieval testing in which, due to the independence assumption, the conclusions drawn may be taken as absolute. The methodology is illustrated on a large database of MEDLINE records where documents are themselves used as queries. Test results in this setting indicate that, among the several methods tested, a form of cosine coefficient retrieval will give the best performance for the purpose of clustering documents or producing nearest neighbors of documents. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1992
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