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Volume 31, Issue 3
1 March 1975
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Review Article| March 01 1975

INDEX TERM INPUT TO IR SYSTEMS

JOSE‐MARIE GRIFFITHS
JOSE‐MARIE GRIFFITHS
School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, University College London
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7379
Print ISSN: 0022-0418
© MCB UP Limited
1975
Journal of Documentation (1975) 31 (3): 185–190.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026600

The index term input to three information retrieval systems has been analyzed in detail in order to form the input to a completely computerized simulation of an information retrieval system. The paper reports that, with certain reservations, index terms conform in general with the Bradford distribution.

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