Retrieval effectiveness by semantic and citation searching Export

@article{Pao_JASIS_2007, abstract = {A pilot study on the relative retrieval effectiveness of semantic relevance (by terms) and pragmatic relevance (by citations) is reported. A single database has been constructed to provide access by both descriptors and cited references. For each question from a set of queries, two equivalent sets were retrieved. All retrieved items were evaluated by subject experts for relevance to their originating queries. We conclude that there are essentially two types of relevance at work resulting in two different sets of documents. Using both search methods to create a union set is likely to increase recall. Those few retrieved by the intersection of the two methods tend to result in higher precision. Suggestions are made to develop a front-end system to display the overlapping items for higher precision and to manipulate and rank the union sets retrieved by the two search modes for improved output. {\copyright} 1989 John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}, address = {School of Information and Library Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Norwich, NY 13815}, author = {Pao, Miranda L. and Worthen, Dennis B.}, citeulike-article-id = {6090815}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198907)40:4%3C226::AID-ASI2%3E3.0.CO;2-6}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114270272/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198907)40:4%3C226::AID-ASI2%3E3.0.CO;2-6}, issn = {1097-4571}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science}, keywords = {2get, evaluation, ir}, number = {4}, pages = {226--235}, posted-at = {2009-11-09 22:25:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Retrieval effectiveness by semantic and citation searching}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198907)40:4%3C226::AID-ASI2%3E3.0.CO;2-6}, volume = {40}, year = {1989} }

TY - JOUR ID - Pao_JASIS_2007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6090815 N2 - A pilot study on the relative retrieval effectiveness of semantic relevance (by terms) and pragmatic relevance (by citations) is reported. A single database has been constructed to provide access by both descriptors and cited references. For each question from a set of queries, two equivalent sets were retrieved. All retrieved items were evaluated by subject experts for relevance to their originating queries. We conclude that there are essentially two types of relevance at work resulting in two different sets of documents. Using both search methods to create a union set is likely to increase recall. Those few retrieved by the intersection of the two methods tend to result in higher precision. Suggestions are made to develop a front-end system to display the overlapping items for higher precision and to manipulate and rank the union sets retrieved by the two search modes for improved output. © 1989 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. IS - 4 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science SN - 1097-4571 AD - School of Information and Library Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Norwich, NY 13815 EP - 235 TI - Retrieval effectiveness by semantic and citation searching VL - 40 SP - 226 KW - 2get KW - evaluation KW - ir AU - Pao, Miranda AU - Worthen, Dennis PY - 1989/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198907)40:4%3C226::AID-ASI2%3E3.0.CO;2-6 ER -