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Peer reviewedDillon, Martin; Federhart, Peggy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Discusses ways to improve quality of retrieval systems that depend on use of truncated words or quasi-word stems as indexing vocabulary. Problems of generalizability and stability of discriminant function analysis for selecting good topical terms in database drawn from abstracts of Harris Survey press releases are addressed. References are cited.…
Descriptors: Classification, Databases, Discriminant Analysis, Information Retrieval
