Blair & Maron Article - 1

1. Battle to publish results
   • Exposes weakness of IR
   • Concern re effect on Stairs
2. 20% recall was well-known
   • 80-20 rule

Blair & Maron Article - 2

Outlandish conclusions!

• free text vs. controlled vocab (Cleverdon, ~1960)
• automatic vs. manual indexing (Salton, 1971)
• scale-up of lab results (TREC, 1992)