Relevance Weighting of Search Terms.

Robertson, S. E.; Sparck Jones, K.

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Publication Date: 1976

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Relevance Weighting of Search Terms

Robertson, S. E.; Sparck Jones, K.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 27, 3, 129-46, May-Jun 76

Examines statistical techniques for exploiting relevance information to weight search terms. These techniques are presented as a natural extension of weighting methods using information about the distribution of index terms in documents in general. (Author)

Descriptors: Indexing, Information Retrieval, Probability, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Statistical Analysis

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