Evaluation of Model-Based Retrieval Effectiveness with OCR Text

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 64-93

  Taghva, Kazem ^a   Borsack, Julie ^a   Condit, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

H.3.1 Information Storage and Retrieval : Content Analysis and Indexing indexing methods; H.3.3 Information Storage and Retrieval : Information Search and Retrieval retrieval models; search process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002849652     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/214174.214180     Document Type: Article

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