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A fast procedure for the calculation of similarity coefficients in automatic classification

Information Processing & ManagementPublished 1 January 1981
Peter Willett
Citations31
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score2.06
SNIP2.91

TL;DR

A fast algorithm is described for comparing the lists of terms representing documents in automatic classification experiments, using an inverted file to the terms in the document collection.

Abstract

A fast algorithm is described for comparing the lists of terms representing documents in automatic classification experiments. The speed of the procedure arises from the fact that all of the non-zero-valued coefficients for a given document are identified together, using an inverted file to the terms in the document collection. The complexity and running time of the algorithm are compared with previously described procedures.

Keywords

Computer Science