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Sparck Jones, K.; Van Rijsbergen, C. J. – Journal of Documentation, 1973
Substantial alterations to a system often have little or no effect on particular collections. This may be due to poor separation of relevant and non-relevant documents. The paper presents a procedure for characterizing this separation, which can show whether proposed modifications of the base system are likely to be useful. (8 references)…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, Cluster Analysis, Databases

Griffiths, Alan; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1984
Considers classifications produced by application of single linkage, complete linkage, group average, and word clustering methods to Keen and Cranfield document test collections, and studies structure of hierarchies produced, extent to which methods distort input similarity matrices during classification generation, and retrieval effectiveness…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Classification, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping