Improving precision and recall for Soundex retrieval

Proceedings - International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 22-26

  Holmes, David ^a   McCabe, M Catherine ^b  

^a NCR CORPORATION   (United States)

^b US Government   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer errors; Cultural differences; Fuses; Government; Information retrieval; Information systems; Information technology; Libraries

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRIC FUSES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIBRARIES; LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTER ERRORS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; DICE COEFFICIENT; GOVERNMENT; PRECISION AND RECALL; RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS; SIMILARITY SCORES; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84949775587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITCC.2002.1000354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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