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The Use of Discriminant Analysis to Select Content-Bearing Words.

Peer reviewed

Dillon, Martin; Federhart, Peggy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982

Presents a method for identifying indexing terms from word stems, using discriminant analysis to distinguish terms which refer to topics from terms which do not refer to topics. A test of the method on the Harris Survey Question database is discussed. Included are 11 data tables and a reference list. (Author/JL)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Information Retrieval

Assessing Information on the Internet: Toward Providing Library Services for Computer-Mediated Communication.

Dillon, Martin; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992

Describes a project that examined textual information available on the Internet and potential means of providing access to this information. Highlights include an overview of Internet resources, a profile of a document sample, description of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, and an automated method of categorizing files. (MES)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Classification, Databases