Document representation and retrieval using empirical facts: Evaluation of a pilot system
✍ Scribed by Oh, Sam G.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
This article investigates the potentialities of using empir-to locate articles that discuss the relationships between ical variables and their associated statistical relationemotional depression and self-esteem. Using the PsychIships in document representation and retrieval. To this nfo database she would search under ''Depression, Emoend, a newly devised empirical fact retrieval system tion, AND Self-Esteem.'' She will retrieve over 400 arti-(EFRS) was evaluated in comparison to a simulated tracles, some of which report studies with relevant informaditional retrieval system (TRS) involving a set of predetermined empirical queries. Results indicate that the tion, but others only mention depression and self-esteem EFRS generally outperformed the TRS in terms of preciwithout relating one to the other. For example, an article sion, search effort, and measures of user satisfaction.
about the role of autonomous self-regulation as a predictor
Possible advantages of the EFRS, as well as the necesof academic procrastination would be retrieved if both sity of establishing an efficient method for extracting depression and self-esteem were mentioned in it. The empirical facts, are discussed. 1.1. A Retrieval Scenario report experimental research findings. Almost all these To understand problems of conventional indexing in articles include distinct and structured elements, viz. emanswering specific queries, let us suppose a user wants pirical variables, strength and direction of relationships between and among them, and associated statistical infor-