id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-4668 Lipetz, Ben-Ami; Stangl, Peter; Taylor, Kathryn F. Performance of Ruecking's Word-compression Method When Applied to Machine Retrieval from a Library Catalog 1969-12-01 6 .pdf application/pdf 2599 121 59 If foreign-language references had been systematically ignored in applying the test to catalog searches, some 16% ( 20 out of 126) of the searches would have been excluded, with no real gain in performance. Ruecking' s W ord-Compression/LIPETZ 269 Table 1 provides detailed information on the discrepancies between user data and catalog data in the test. cache/ital-4668.pdf txt/ital-4668.txt