Experiments in Relevance Weighting of Search Terms.

Jones, K. Sparck

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ERIC Number: EJ209781

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Publication Date: 1979

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Experiments in Relevance Weighting of Search Terms.

Jones, K. Sparck

Information Processing and Management, v15 n3 p133-44 1979

Describes large scale experiments to test the value of index term weighting based on relevance information, and presents results showing that weighting leads to remarkable improvements in retrieval performance. (Author/CWM)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Experiments, Information Retrieval, Performance Factors, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms

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Language: English

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