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A statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval
Karen Spärck JonesThe exhaustivity of document descriptions and the specificity of index terms are usually regarded as independent. It is suggested that specificity should be interpreted…
Understanding inverse document frequency: on theoretical arguments for IDF
Stephen RobertsonThe term‐weighting function known as IDF was proposed in 1972, and has since been extremely widely used, usually as part of a TF*IDF function. It is often described as a…
IDF term weighting and IR research lessons
Karen Spärck JonesRobertson comments on the theoretical status of IDF term weighting. Its history illustrates how ideas develop in a specific research context, in theory/experiment interaction, and…
Introduction to bibliometrics for construction and maintenance of thesauri: Methodical considerations
Jesper W. Schneider, Pia BorlundThe paper introduces bibliometrics to the research area of knowledge organization – more precisely in relation to construction and maintenance of thesauri. As such, the paper…
Exploring the attitudes of public library staff to the Internet using the TAM
Rachel Spacey, Anne Goulding, Ian MurrayAn investigation into the attitudes of public library staff in the UK towards the Internet involved use of a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The use of…
Comparing usability between a visualization and text‐based system for information retrieval
Sherry KoshmanThis investigation tested the designer assumption that VIBE is a tool for an expert user and asked: what are the effects of user expertise on usability when VIBE's non‐traditional…
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