The Use of Discriminant Analysis to Select Content-Bearing Words.

Dillon, Martin; Federhart, Peggy

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Publication Date: 1982-Jul

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The Use of Discriminant Analysis to Select Content-Bearing Words.

Dillon, Martin; Federhart, Peggy

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v33 n4 p245-53 Jul 1982

Presents a method for identifying indexing terms from word stems, using discriminant analysis to distinguish terms which refer to topics from terms which do not refer to topics. A test of the method on the Harris Survey Question database is discussed. Included are 11 data tables and a reference list. (Author/JL)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Information Retrieval, Questionnaires, Statistical Analysis, Subject Index Terms, Surveys, Word Frequency

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