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Wong, S. K. M.; Yao, Y. Y. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Suggests a probabilistic method to compute the term relationships from relevance information, which complements the studies on a nonprobabilistic technique called pseudo-classification. A quadratic ranking function is derived by incorporating the term-by-term relationships. Procedures for estimating the required parameters are provided by…
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Indexing, Methods, Models