id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4668 Lipetz, Ben-Ami; Stangl, Peter; Taylor, Kathryn F. Performance of Ruecking's Word-compression Method When Applied to Machine Retrieval from a Library Catalog 1969-12-01 6 .pdf application/pdf 2567 163 63 Its acceptability as a substitute for conventional catalog searching methods is questioned unless recall performance can be improved, either by use of the and 98.67% accuracy (precision) in a test of his method in which unverified book order requests were matched against a MARC I data base method when applied to bibliographic retrieval from a library catalog. method by manual simulation, and to test its recall performance in real paper came from 126 searches in which the catalog users had been successful in locating the specific documents that they were seeking. instance to the author-title search clues supplied by the catalog user and Ruecking's method was designed for use with English-language titles catalog, only 88 were retrieved by the compression-code method-a recall were retrieved by the compression-code method-a recall rate of 73%. The test considered real document searches that were concluded successfully in an actual library using a manual catalog; recall is ./cache/4668.pdf ./txt/4668.txt