Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Is searching full text more effective than searching abstracts? by Jimmy Lin

Is searching full text more effective than searching abstracts?
Jimmy Lin

BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:46 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-46


Conclusion: Users searching full text are more likely to find relevant articles than searching only abstracts. This finding affirms the value of full text collections for text retrieval and provides a starting point for future work in exploring algorithms that take advantage of rapidly-growing digital archives. Experimental results also highlight the need to develop sentence simplification tools, since full-text articles are significantly longer than abstracts.

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