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Robertson, S. (2005). On the Early History of Evaluation in IR. In: Tait, J.I. (eds) Charting a New Course: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. The Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3467-9_2
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