%0 Book Section
%1 allen2010generality
%A Allen, R.
%A Wu, Yejun
%B Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology
%C Berlin / Heidelberg
%D 2010
%E Lim, Ee
%E Foo, Schubert
%E Khoo, Chris
%E Chen, Hsinchun
%E Fox, Edward
%E Urs, Shalini
%E Costantino, Thanos
%I Springer
%K genta11
%P 111-116
%T Generality of Texts
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36227-4_11
%V 2555
%X When searching or browsing, a user may be looking for either very general information or very specific information. We explored predictors for characterizing the generality of six encyclopedia texts. We had human subjects rank-order the generality of the texts. We also developed statistics from analysis of word frequency and from comparison to a set of reference terms. We found a statistically significant relationship between the human ratings of text generality and our automatic measure.