Exhaustivity
Exhaustivity in Legal Information Retrieval
The following is a basic concept of Exhaustivity in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Exhaustivity may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Exhaustivity of indexing refers to the detail with which the topics and features of messages, texts, and documentary units are described. How many different descriptors or terms are used to describe the content or features of a typical documentary unit? This number of terms or descriptors is a measure of exhaustivity.
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