i installed v2.40a, MG searching worked strange
searching "digital library" OR "electronic library" kept to be postprocessed as conjunction

I may be wrong but check it before you session start (it would be silly)

ideas : your students could try searching for multilingual terms with greenstone - in texts (not in standardized fields) at least english, german, french and without stemmer (there is no for french)

cut&paste searching in russian collections

roman

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Od (From): "Karen E. Medina" <kmedina@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
Komu (To): greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
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Předmět (Subject): [greenstone-users] students to look at Greenstone as an IR system/ ideas?
Datum (Date): 26. 9. 2003 17:44
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> Dear Greenstone Makers and Users,
>
> Do you have any great ideas for my library and information science
> students?
>
> I would like to create an assignment for our Information Retrieval
> class to evaluate Greenstone. For things like precision and recall.
>
> For instance, a current assignment is to compare search engines with
> boolean queries.
> http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/fall03/lis329a/CompEngines.html
>
> Things they could evaluate:
> - precision
> - recall
> - fallout
> - generality
> User-oriented measures
> - coverage ratio
> - novelty ratio
> - relative recall
> - recall effort
>
> By the way, we are really looking forward to Ian Witten's visit on Monday.
>
> Sincerely,
> Karen Medina
> phd student and teaching assistant
> Graduate School of Library and Information Science
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>
>
>
>
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