A characterization of the information content of a classification

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 211-214

  Baclawski, Kenneth ^a   Simovici, Dan A ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Information content; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042040347     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-0190(96)00003-8     Document Type: Article

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