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Ibraev, Ulukbek; Ng, Kwong Bor; Kantor, Paul B. – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002
Explores aspects of data fusion (DF) for information retrieval (IR) using a set of data from the Fifth International Conference on Text Retrieval (TREC5). Derives an equation for effective DF based on a geometric model and shows that the performance of a pair of IR schemes may be approximated by a quadratic polynomial. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Geometry, Information Retrieval, Mathematical Formulas
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Nishimoto, Hideki; Ura, Shoji – Information Processing and Management, 1989
Describes an interface mechanism called "complex view support" to be used with a relational database system (RDBS) in supporting increasingly complex distributed environments in automated library systems. The interface system refers queries to multidimensional tables as well as to flat tables on RDBS and is shown to efficiently support…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Database Management Systems, Information Retrieval, Library Automation
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Larson, Ray R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Presents the results of research into the automatic selection of Library of Congress Classification numbers based on the titles and subject headings in MARC records from a test database at the University of California at Berkeley Library School library. Classification clustering and matching techniques are described. (44 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Classification