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Silva, Wagner Teixeira da; Milidiu, Ruy Luiz – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Describes the Belief Function Model for automatic indexing and ranking of documents which is based on a controlled vocabulary and on term frequencies in each document. Belief Function Theory is explained, and the Belief Function Model is compared to the Standard Vector Space Model. (17 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Documentation, Information Retrieval