Extensions to the Stairs Study - Empirical Evidence for the Hypothesised Ineffectiveness of Boolean Queries in Large Full-Text Databases

Information Retrieval

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 257-273

  Sormunen, Eero ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boolean queries; Full text databases; IR evaluation; STAIRS study

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041335501     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011950323099     Document Type: Article

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