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Liars: A software environment for testing query processing strategies

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Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 1982)

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This paper describes the Louisiana Information Access and Retrieval System, LIARS, a software system which provides an environment within which various strategies for query processing (and, to a certain extent, document indexing) can be empirically tested.

Research supported in part by NSF Grant IST-8115146

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Buell, D.A., Kraft, D.H. (1983). Liars: A software environment for testing query processing strategies. In: Salton, G., Schneider, HJ. (eds) Research and Development in Information Retrieval. SIGIR 1982. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 146. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0036335

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