Generality of Texts

  • Authors:
  • Robert B. Allen;Yejun Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICADL '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

When searching or browsing, a user may be looking for either very general information or very specific information. We explored predictors for characterizing the generality of six encyclopedia texts. We had human subjects rank-order the generality of the texts. We also developed statistics from analysis of word frequency and from comparison to a set of reference terms. We found a statistically significant relationship between the human ratings of text generality and our automatic measure.