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A Theory of Indexing

A Theory of Indexing

A Theory of Indexing

Gerard Salton
February 1987
Paperback
9780898710151
AUD$68.95
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Paperback

    This book presents a theory of indexing capable of ranking index terms, or subject identifiers in decreasing order of importance. This leads to the choice of good document representations, and also accounts for the role of phrases and of thesaurus classes in the indexing process.
    This study is typical of theoretical work in automatic information organization and retrieval, in that concepts are used from mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. A complete theory of information retrieval may emerge from an appropriate combination of these three disciplines.

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    February 1987
    Paperback
    9780898710151
    62 pages
    250 × 174 × 4 mm
    0.128kg
    This item is not supplied by Cambridge University Press in your region. Please contact Soc for Industrial & Applied Mathematics for availability.

    Table of Contents

    • Term significance computations
    • Utilization of term significance
    • Characterization of term significance rankings
    • Experimental results
    • A theory of indexing.