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Can, Fazil; Ozkarahan, Esen A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Introduces the concept of cover coefficient to indexing theory and discusses a way of computing term discrimination values by using the cover coefficient concept, index-term selection, and weight modification. This method is compared to an approach that uses similarity coefficients. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Correlation, Expert Systems, Heuristics, Indexing