Natural Language vs. Boolean Query Evaluation: A Comparison of Retrieval Performance.

Howard R. Turtle: Natural Language vs. Boolean Query Evaluation: A Comparison of Retrieval Performance. SIGIR 1994: 212-220

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/Turtle94,
  author    = {Howard R. Turtle},
  editor    = {W. Bruce Croft and
               C. J. van Rijsbergen},
  title     = {Natural Language vs. Boolean Query Evaluation: A Comparison of
               Retrieval Performance},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference
               on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Dublin,
               Ireland, 3-6 July 1994 (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum)},
  publisher = {ACM/Springer},
  year      = {1994},
  isbn      = {3-540-19889-X},
  pages     = {212-220},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/Turtle94.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/94},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

The results of experiments comparing the relative performance of natural language and Boolean query formulations are presented. The experiments show that on average a current generation natural language system provides better retrieval performance than expert searchers using a Boolean retrieval system when searching full-text legal materials. Methodological issues are reviewed and the effect of database size on query formulation strategy is discussed.

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