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This paper presents a series of experiments which compare boolean and ranked output retrieval systems. The scope of current experiments to evaluate these systems are considered and new analyses presented
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Keen, E.M. (1993). Performance Comparisons of Boolean and Ranked Output Retrieval. In: McEnery, T., Paice, C. (eds) 14th Information Retrieval Colloquium. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3211-0_7
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