The influence of indexing practices and weighting algorithms on document spaces

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-11

  Wolfram, Dietmar ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT SPACE DENSITY (DSD); FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 38349134163     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20688     Document Type: Article

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