Generality of Texts.
In:
E. Lim, S. Foo, C. Khoo, H. Chen, E. Fox, S. Urs and T. Costantino, editors,
Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology, pages 111-116.
Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2010.
R. Allen and Yejun Wu.
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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.