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term discrimination value: a standalone construct

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term discriminationvalue1 CONSTRUCTTerm discriminationSALTON · INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

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how much a term changes the average similarity among documents in a collection, with good index terms making documents less alike.

In information retrieval, term discrimination value refers to how much a term changes the average similarity among documents in a collection, with good index terms making documents less alike. This meaning comes from Salton (1975) in Journal of the American Society for Information Science.[1]

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References

  1. Salton, G., Yang, C. S., & Yu, C. T. (1975). A theory of term importance in automatic text analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 26(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630260106

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