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ICADL 2002: Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology pp 111–116Cite as

Generality of Texts

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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.

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  1. College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA

    R. B. Allen & Yejun Wu

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Ee- Peng Lim , Schubert Foo  & Chris Khoo ,  & 

  2. University of Arizona, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  3. Virginia Tech, USA

    Edward Fox

  4. University of Mysore, Mysore

    Shalini Urs

  5. IEI-CNR, Italy

    Thanos Costantino

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Allen, R.B., Wu, Y. (2002). Generality of Texts. In: Lim, E.P., et al. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology. ICADL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36227-4_11

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