Analyzing the vector model effectiveness in ordering questionnaires

• Richard Souza Federal University of Santa Catarina
• Carina Dorneles Federal University of Santa Catarina

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsi.2017.6088

Abstract

The elaboration of questionnaires for application in interviews, statistical surveys or scientific research is not a trivial task, because poorly worked questions can lead to direct answers with meaningless or naive interpretations. Therefore, it may be interesting to reuse, partially or totally, questionnaires already constructed with the same purpose. In this paper, we describe an experiment to analyze the execution of the vector model in the retrieval of questionnaires. In this sense, an experiment was carried out to verify the vector model effectiveness in searching and ordering questionnaires. The result of the analysis of the experiment revealed that the vector model was effective in ordering the first relevant questionnaire in most of the queries. However, there was a variation between actual and expected results from the ordering of the relevant questionnaires, considering the questionnaires that should appear in the second position.

Keywords: Questionário, modelo vetorial, ordenação

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