A theory of indexing

Gerard Salton9780898710151, 0898710154

Presents a theory of indexing capable of ranking index terms, or subject identifiers in decreasing order of importance. This leads to the choice of good document representations, and also accounts for the role of phrases and of thesaurus classes in the indexing process.
This study is typical of theoretical work in automatic information organization and retrieval, in that concepts are used from mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. A complete theory of information retrieval may emerge from an appropriate combination of these three disciplines.

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Table of contents :
A THEORY OF INDEXING……Page 1
Contents……Page 5
Preface……Page 7
A Theory of Indexing……Page 9
Term significance computations…….Page 12
Utilization of term significance…….Page 20
Characterization of term significance rankings…….Page 25
Experimental results…….Page 34
A theory of indexing…….Page 49
REFERENCES……Page 63