A characterization of the information content of a classification

Kenneth Baclawski; Dan A. Simovici

doi:10.1016/0020-0190(96)00003-8

A characterization of the information content of a classification

Kenneth Baclawski
, Dan A. Simovici

Computer Science

Northeastern University

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Abstract

We present a simple characterization of the information content of collections of sets. The characterization is based on families of measures that satisfy two natural conditions. We discuss briefly applications to document retrieval systems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-214
Number of pages	4
Journal	Information Processing Letters
Volume	57
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0190(96)00003-8
State	Published - Feb 26 1996

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Signal Processing
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications

Keywords

Entropy
Information content
Information retrieval

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