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This chapter describes our experiments to determine the retrieval effectiveness of FERRET and its various components. The key study was the comparison of FERRET’S recall and precision performance versus boolean keyword search. That study is described in Section 6.4.
if your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
—Ernest Rutherford
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Mauldin, M.L. (1991). Empirical Studies. In: Conceptual Information Retrieval. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 152. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4004-5_6
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