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ON THE SPECIFICATION OF TERM VALUES IN AUTOMATIC INDEXING

G. SALTON (Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca)
C.S. YANG (Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca)

Journal of Documentation

ISSN: 0022-0418

Article publication date: 1 April 1973

769

Abstract

The existing practice in automatic indexing is reviewed, and it is shown that the standard theories for the specification of term values (or weights) are not adequate. New techniques are introduced for the assignment of weights to index terms, based on the characteristics of individual document collections. The effectiveness of some of the proposed methods is evaluated.

Citation

SALTON, G. and YANG, C.S. (1973), "ON THE SPECIFICATION OF TERM VALUES IN AUTOMATIC INDEXING", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 351-372. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026562

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MCB UP Ltd

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