Talk:SMART Information Retrieval System

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I. The SMART Project - Status Report and Plans
G. Salton
1. Introduction
The SMART document retrieval system has been operating on a 7094 computer since the end of 1964. The system takes documents and search requests in English, performs a fully-automatic content analysis of the texts, matches analyzed documents with analyzed search requests, and retrieves those stored items believed to be most similar to the queries. The system has been used largely as an experimental tool for language analysis and for the evaluation of the effectiveness of many different types of analysis and search procedures. Thus, the potential benefits, as well as the complications which would have arisen from an operational implementation in a user environment were initially given up in favor of a system which could be operated in a controlled laboratory environment. As a result, it has been possible to conduct several hundred analysis and search experiments, using document collections in the areas of computer science, documentation, and aerodynamics, and considerable information is now known about the effectiveness of fully automatic retrieval procedures, and about the design of automatic information systems.

Gerard Salton, Editor, The SMART Retrieval System: Experiments in Automatic Document Retrieval System, Prentice-Hall, 1971.

-- KYPark (talk) 15:51, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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JSTOR extract (p. 335) from G. Salton (1971) "Automatic Text Analyis" Science Vol. 168, No. 3929 (Apr. 17, 1970), pp. 335-343. -- KYPark (talk) 16:35, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]