An Investigation of Indexing on the WWW.

Srinivasan, Padmini; Ruiz, Miguel E.; Lam, Wai

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ERIC Number: EJ557164

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Publication Date: 1996

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An Investigation of Indexing on the WWW.

Srinivasan, Padmini; Ruiz, Miguel E.; Lam, Wai

Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, v33 p79-83 1996

Proposes a model that assists in understanding indexing on the World Wide Web and presents an experiment assessing the validity of Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) as a term weighting strategy for Web documents. Findings indicate that IDF scores are not stable in the heterogeneous and dynamic context of the Web. (Author/AEF)

Descriptors: Classification, Content Analysis, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Models, Online Searching, Online Systems, Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms, World Wide Web

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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