Accounts on Video are submitted Accounts on Fox and vtaix should work now. Add two 0's to the password if yours was too short. Dec Alpha will be setup in N.Va soon. Importance of IR systems Finding relevant information is an essential human skill it is of great value to society Blair and Maron Article IBM Stairs text retrieval system evaluated. The conclusions drawn from the article didn't match results of experiment.
Most people give up before all the relevant articles have been found.
Controlled vocabulary controls the words used to query a system. This speeds indexed searching Free text searching and controlled vocabulary have similar response times and if not identical. Automatic indexing also has similar response times. Stemming involves the taking of a word and removing endings to get to the stem word. This is a resolution enhancing device.