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Kostoff, R. N.; Eberhart, Henry J.; Toothman, Darrell Ray – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Database Tomography (DT) is a textual database-analysis system consisting of algorithms for extracting multiword phrase frequencies and proximities from a large textual database, to augment interpretative capabilities of the expert human analyst. Describes use of the DT process, supplemented by literature bibliometric analyses, to derive technical…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bibliometrics, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis
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Wong, S. K. M.; Butz, C. J.; Xiang, Y. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Describes a bottom-up procedure for discovering multivalued dependencies in observed data without knowing a priori the relationships among the attributes. The proposed algorithm is an application of technique designed for learning conditional independencies in probabilistic reasoning; a prototype system for automated database schema design has…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automation, Data Analysis, Database Design