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Shepherd, Michael A.; Phillips, W. J. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Defines relationship between user profile and user query in terms of relationship between clusters of documents retrieved by each, and explores the expression of cluster similarity and cluster overlap as linear functions of similarity existing between original pairs of profiles and queries, given the desired retrieval threshold. (23 references)…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Databases, Equations (Mathematics)