An Experiment in Index Term Frequency.

Svenonius, Elaine

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ERIC Number: EJ060817

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Publication Date: 1972

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An Experiment in Index Term Frequency

Svenonius, Elaine

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 23, 2, 109-121, Mar-Apr 72

The question is asked: Of index terms assigned to documents, which function most effectively in retrieval, the most used or popular terms, or those which are used relatively infrequently? The experiment is a retrieval experiment and uses the Cranfield-Salton data. (14 references) (Author)

Descriptors: Indexing, Information Processing, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Subject Index Terms, Word Frequency

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