Jaccard similarity leads to the Marczewski-Steinhaus topology for information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-94

  Rousseau, Ronald ^a  

^a Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

JACCARD SIMILARITY FUNCTION; MARCZEWSKI-STEINHAUS TOPOLOGY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031643259     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(97)00067-8     Document Type: Article

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