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ON THE SPECIFICATION OF TERM VALUES IN AUTOMATIC INDEXING
G. SALTON, C.S. YANGThe 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…
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DUPLICATION IN UNION CATALOGUES
W.Y. ARMSThis paper uses figures of the overlap between eighteen libraries to develop a mathematical model of the duplication likely in a union catalogue. Two consequencescome from the…
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A WEIGHTED RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENT FOR THE COMPARISON OF RELEVANCE JUDGEMENTS
D. KAYEThe application of conventional rank correlation tests to the comparison of relevance judgements is outlined and their disadvantages are noted. A weighted rank correlation…
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SOME PROPERTIES OF RELATIONSHIPS IN THE STRUCTURE OF INDEXING LANGUAGES
E.J. COATESThis discussion treats relational analysis as an alternative to the ‘categorical’ view of syntactic structures in indexing. It is suggested that the relational characterization of…
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- Prof David Bawden