An investigation of the influence of indexing exhaustivity and term distributions on a document space

Authors:
Dietmar Wolfram;Jin Zhang
Affiliations:
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI;School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2002

Citing 17
Cited 1

Split size-rank models for the distribution of index terms

Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The maximal value of a Zipf size variable: sampling properties and relationship to other parameters

Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Stochastic models for the distribution of index terms

Journal of Documentation
Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer

Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
Applying informetric characteristics of databases to IR system file design, Part I: informetric models

Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Informetrics
Applying informetric characteristics of databases to IR system file design, Part II: simulation comparisons

Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Informetrics
A graphical filter/flow representation of Boolean queries: a prototype implementation and evaluation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science
TileBars: visualization of term distribution information in full text information access

CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information storage and retrieval

Information storage and retrieval
DARE: distance and angle retrieval environment: a tale of the two measures

Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Visualizing science by citation mapping

Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Visualizing document classification: a search aid for the digital library

Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
Compus: visualization and analysis of structured documents for understanding social life in the 16th century

DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Visualizing digital library search results with categorical and hierarchical axes

DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Visualization of term discrimination analysis

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
TOFIR: a tool of facilitating information retrieval — introduce a visual retrieval model

Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Problems in the simulation of bibliographic retrieval systems

SIGIR '80 Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval

The influence of indexing practices and weighting algorithms on document spaces

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The authors investigate the influence of index term distributions, and indexing exhaustivity levels on the document space within a visual information retrieval environment called DARE. Using combinations of three levels of term distributions (shallow, observed, steep) and indexing exhaustivity (low, observed, high), hypothetical document sets were generated and projected onto the DARE environment. The results from the simulated document sets demonstrate the importance of term distribution and exhaustivity characteristics on the density of document spaces and their implications for retrieval, particularly when different term weighting schemes are used. The results also demonstrate how different combinations of exhaustivity and term distributions may result in similar document space density characteristics.