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Science 30 August 1991:
Vol. 253. no. 5023, pp. 1012 - 1015
DOI: 10.1126/science.253.5023.1012
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Global Text Matching for Information Retrieval

GERARD SALTON 1 and CHRIS BUCKLEY 1

1 Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

An approach is outlined for the retrieval of natural language texts in response to available search requests and for the recognition of content similarities between text excerpts. The proposed retrieval process is based on flexible text matching procedures carried out in a number of different text environments and is applicable to large text collections covering unrestricted subject matter. For unrestricted text environments this system appears to outperform other currently available methods.

Submitted on March 13, 1991
Accepted on June 5, 1991


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