Effects of OCR errors on ranking and feedback using the vector space model

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 317-327

  Taghva, Kazem ^a   Borsack, Julie ^a   Condit, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COSINE NORMALIZATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION ERRORS; VECTOR SPACE MODEL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030151440     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4573(95)00058-5     Document Type: Article

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