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that a search strategy will infallibly find the class of documents containing the relevant documents
...Note that the Cluster Hypothesis refers to given document descriptions
...As can be seen from the above,the Cluster Hypothesis is a convenient way of expressing the aim of such operations as document clustering
...The use of clustering in information retrieval There are a number of discussions in print now which cover the use of clustering in IR
...In choosing a cluster method for use in experimental IR,two,often conflicting,criteria have frequently been used
...1 the method produces a clustering which is unlikely to be altered drastically when further objects are incorporated,i
...2 the method is stable in the sense that small errors in the description of the objects lead to small changes in the clustering;3 the method is independent of the initial ordering of the objects
...These conditions have been adapted from Jardine and Sibson [2]... |
