Abstracts of Articles in the Information Retrieval Area Selected by Gerard Salton The Possible Effect of Abstracting Guidelines on Retrieval Performance of Free-Text Searching Raya Fidel A survey of abstracting guidelines used to enhance free-text retrieval. Editors consider content of abstracts and their language as a primary factor in retrieval enhancement. Requirements about the type of abstracts, i.e. informative or indicative, and and about their length are not affected by the capability of free-text retrieval. While instructions about content and language of abstracts indicate that better control and coordination results in better retrieval performance, it is not clear as yet in what way type and length of abstracts is affecting retrieval. From: InformationProcessing and Management Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 309-316, 1986. E n d - U s e r Information-Seeking in the E n e r g y Field: Implications for E n d _ U s e r Access to Doe/Recon D a t a b a s e s Donald Case, C h r i s t i n e L. Borgman, and Charles T. Meadow A software research and development project for the U.S. Department of Energy provided an opportunity to explore the information-seeking
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