Experiments with Document Components for Indexing and Retrieval.

Kwok, K. L.; Kuan, William

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Publication Date: 1988

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Experiments with Document Components for Indexing and Retrieval.

Kwok, K. L.; Kuan, William

Information Processing and Management, v24 n4 p405-17 1988

Describes an investigation of the use of document components, such as terms, sentences, and whole documents, for indexing and retrieval. A number of probabilistic similarity measures based on document components are studied, as well as a new method of handling probability estimations involving small sample sizes. (24 references) (Author/CLB)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Mathematical Formulas, Measurement Techniques, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Sample Size, Tables (Data)

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