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Bookstein, Abraham; Raita, T. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Examines consequences for information control of the tendency of occurrences of content-bearing terms to appear together, or clump. Properties of previously defined clumping measures are reviewed and extended, and significance of these measures for devising retrieval strategies discussed. A new type of clumping measure, which extends the earlier…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Information Management, Information Retrieval, Information Science