Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

1976

@article{YuS1976,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	author =	{C. T. Yu and G. Salton},
	title =	{Precision Weighting---An Effective Automatic Indexing
	Method},
	journal =	{Journal of the ACM},
	volume =	{23},
	number =	{1},
	pages =	{76--88},
	year =	{1976},
	url =	{http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/321921.321930},
	abstract =	{A great many automatic indexing methods have been
	implemented and evaluated over the last few years, and automatic
	procedures comparable in effectiveness to conventional manual ones are
	now easy to generate. Two drawbacks of the available automatic indexing
	methods are the absence of reliable linguistic inputs during the
	indexing process and the lack of formal, analytical proofs concerning
	the effectiveness of the proposed methods. The precision weighting
	procedure described in the present study uses relevance criteria to
	weight the terms occurring in user queries as a function of the balance
	between relevant and nonrelevant documents in which these terms occur;
	this approximates a semantic know-how of term importance. Formal
	mathematical proofs are given under well-defined conditions of the
	effectiveness of the method.},
}