STATISTICAL METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF INDEXING PHRASES

Antoine Doucet, Helena Ahonen-Myka

2010

Abstract

In this paper, we review statistical techniques for the direct evaluation of descriptive phrases and introduce a new technique based on mutual information. In the experiments, we apply this technique to different types of frequent sequences, hereby finding mathematical justification of former empirical practice.

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Doucet A. and Ahonen-Myka H. (2010). STATISTICAL METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF INDEXING PHRASES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-28-7, pages 141-149. DOI: 10.5220/0003054801410149


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@conference{kdir10,
author={Antoine Doucet and Helena Ahonen-Myka},
title={STATISTICAL METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF INDEXING PHRASES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={141-149},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003054801410149},
isbn={978-989-8425-28-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)
TI - STATISTICAL METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF INDEXING PHRASES
SN - 978-989-8425-28-7
AU - Doucet A.
AU - Ahonen-Myka H.
PY - 2010
SP - 141
EP - 149
DO - 10.5220/0003054801410149