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Volume 60, Issue 5
1 October 2004
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Research Article| October 01 2004

IDF term weighting and IR research lessons Available to Purchase

Karen Spärck Jones
Karen Spärck Jones
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7379
Print ISSN: 0022-0418
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
Journal of Documentation (2004) 60 (5): 521–523.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410410560591

Robertson comments on the theoretical status of IDF term weighting. Its history illustrates how ideas develop in a specific research context, in theory/experiment interaction, and in operational practice.

Keywords:
Information research, Information retrieval, Information science and documentation
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
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