The “generality” effect and the retrieval evaluation for large collections
作者:
G. Salton,
期刊:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
(WILEY Available online 1972)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 1
页码: 11-22
ISSN:0002-8231
年代: 1972
DOI:10.1002/asi.4630230105
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe retrieval effectiveness of large document collections is normally assessed by using small subsections of the file for test purposes, and extrapolating the data upward to represent the results for the full collection. The accuracy of such an extrapolation unhappily depends on the “generality” of the respective collections.In the present study the role of the generality effect in retrieval system evaluation is assessed, and evaluation results are given for the comparison of several document collections of distinct size and generality in the areas of documentation and aerodynam
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