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Gerard Salton
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 185
Citations - 53719
Gerard Salton is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Document retrieval & Human–computer information retrieval. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 184 publications receiving 52187 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerard Salton include Ithaca College & University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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A citation study of computer science literature
Gerard Salton,Donna Bergmark +1 more
TL;DR: A clustering study of computer science literature is described, using bibliographic citations as a clustering criterion, and conclusions are drawn regarding the scope ofComputer science and the characteristics of individual documents in the area.
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Automatic routing and ad-hoc retrieval using SMART: TREC 2
TL;DR: This work continues work in the TREC 2 environment, performing both routing and ad-hoc experiments, and extends investigations into combining global similarities, giving an overall indication of how a document matches a query, with local similarities identifying a smaller the query.
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Automatic Query Formulations in Information Retrieval
TL;DR: Methods are introduced in this study which reduce the role of the search intermediaries by making it possible to generate Boolean search formulations completely automatically from natural language statements provided by the system patrons.
Length Normalization in Degraded Text Collections
TL;DR: This study examines the effects of the well known cosinenormalization method in the presence of OCR errors and proposes a new, more robust, normalization method that yields significant improvements in retrieval effectiveness over cosine normalization.