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Document Length and Term Frequency---Summary

We have, then, a term weighting function which includes a within-document term frequency component, without (equation 8) or with (equation 10) a document-length component. We also have a document-length correction factor (equation 13) which can be applied to either 8 or 10.



Steve Robertson
Mon May 13 18:33:21 BST 1996