The use of inference networks to support document retrieval is introduced. A network-based
retrieval model is described and compared to conventional probabilistic and Boolean …

… Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft Computer and Information Science Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 … Bruce Croft and Howard Turtle. A …

Search engines are a critical tool for intelligence analysis. A number of innovations for search
have been introduced since research with an emphasis on analyst needs began in the …

… In Panels F, G, and H, we examine interactions of election … However, in Panels G and H,
there are significant differences … Panel H reports comparisons across election timing (early or …

… (1) can be viewed as a single equation with one unknown that we denote as the implied
barrier, H. Our objective is to calculate this implied barrier in the same manner that the SC …

Four types of bankruptcy prediction models based on financial statement ratios, cash flows,
stock returns, and return standard deviations are compared. Based on a sample of …

… Our discussion applies directly to the major probabilistic (Turtle & Croft, 1991; Croft, 1981;
van Rijsbergen, 1979) and vector-space (Salton & McGill, 1983; Salton & Allen, 1994) retrieval …

Both phrases and Boolean queries have a long history in information retrieval, particularly
in commercial systems. In previous work, Boolean queries have been used as a source of …

The attendees of the workshop considered information retrieval research in a range of areas
chosen to give broad coverage of topic areas that engage information retrieval researchers. …

… The models of Robertson et al.,20 Fuhr9 and Turtle and Croft32 are somewhat more
comprehensive but still leave a number of questions unanswered, such as how different types of …