A Theory of Indexing

This book presents a theory of indexing capable of ranking index terms, or subject identifiers in decreasing order of importance.

Gerard Salton (Author)

9780898710151

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 1987

62 pages
24.9 x 17.2 x 0.3 cm, 0.126 kg

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.

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

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