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The questions seem related to search engines or should you be googling for full text indexes or the other more correct name inverted index. Because in the normal scheme of events databases return exactly what you ask for. Dave Caroline On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Fleming, Declan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi folks! > > I got an interesting question from one of our librarians working on a paper, "and we want to include a bit about the qualities of a database, such as precision and recall." She is looking for references. > > I did the Google/Wikipedia lookups, but I'm sure she's done that too. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval > > and here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall > > > If this subject resonates with anyone, give me a shout and maybe some links. > > Thanks! > Declan >