Response to Dr. Humphrey's letter

✍ Scribed by Hersh, William

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199605)47:5<408::aid-asi20>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

Legal lnformatics

Sir:

1. Failure analysis identifying some recurring patterns for false-negative and false-positive retrievals.

I note that each and every problem uncovered by failure analysis is a problem that human indexing is designed to help solve.

The authors write: "The most common causes of relevant documents failing to be retrieved were the presence of synonyms not recognized by SAPHIRE (i.e., the form in the document was not in the Metathesaurus) . . ."