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Bartell, Brian T.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Discussion of the failure of individual keywords to identify conceptual content of documents in retrieval systems highlights Metric Similarity Modeling, a method for creating vector space representation of documents based on modeling target interdocument similarity values. Semantic relatedness, latent semantic indexing, an indexing and retrieval…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Databases, Documentation, Indexing
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Silva, Wagner Teixeira da; Milidiu, Ruy Luiz – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Describes the Belief Function Model for automatic indexing and ranking of documents which is based on a controlled vocabulary and on term frequencies in each document. Belief Function Theory is explained, and the Belief Function Model is compared to the Standard Vector Space Model. (17 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Documentation, Information Retrieval
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Willett, Peter – Information Processing and Management, 1981
Describes a fast algorithm for comparing the lists of terms representing documents in automatic classification experiments. Complexity and running time for the algorithm are compared to other procedures, and a short algol-like routine is presented in the appendix. Eight references are included. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Classification, Documentation