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An Experimental Study of Factors Important in Document Ranking.

Donna Harman: An Experimental Study of Factors Important in Document Ranking. SIGIR 1986: 186-193
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/Harman86,
  author    = {Donna Harman},
  title     = {An Experimental Study of Factors Important in Document Ranking},
  booktitle = {SIGIR'86, Proceedings of the 9th Annual International ACM SIGIR
               Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
                Pisa, Italy, September 8-10, 1986},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1986},
  pages     = {186-193},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/Harman86.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/86},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

The ability to effectively rank retrieved documents in order of their probable relevance to a query is a critical factor in statistically-based keyword retrieval systems. This paper summarizes a set of experiments with different methods of term weighting for documents, using measures of term importance within an entire document collection, term importance within a given document, and document length. It is shown that significant improvements over no term weighting can be made using a combination of weighting measures and normalizing for document length.

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