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Ott, Niels; Meurers, Detmar – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2010
Search engines have been a major factor in making the web the successful and widely used information source it is today. Generally speaking, they make it possible to retrieve web pages on a topic specified by the keywords entered by the user. Yet web searching currently does not take into account which of the search results are comprehensible for…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Readability, Language Patterns
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Haas, Stephanie W.; Losee, Robert M., Jr. – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Reports on a study of the size of text windows, defined as a group of words appearing in contiguous position in text, and the effects of varying the window size on information retrieval performance. The characteristics of windows that best match terms in queries are examined in detail. (Contains 10 references.) (KRN)
Descriptors: Correlation, Information Retrieval, Language Patterns, Performance Factors
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Damerau, Fred J. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Examines the use of various statistical techniques for generating domain-oriented multiword vocabulary terms for natural language database systems. Conclusions show the vocabulary clustering effect should be considered when making significance calculations and that a simple ratio of subject matter relative frequency to total sample relative…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Cluster Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Database Design