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The performance of a retrieval system can be determined in a straightforward manner with analytic techniques if one limits oneself to using only a single term from the query. Limiting our discussion to one term allows us to fully understand many retrieval characteristics and options that are far more difficult to understand in a multi-term case.
The price of reability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.
—C.A.R. Hoare,1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
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Losee, R.M. (1998). Performance with One Term. In: Text Retrieval and Filtering. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5705-0_6
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