Performance of Kilgour's truncation algorithm in files of different subjects

Bradley Kjell

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1974, vol. 25, issue 1, 70-71

Abstract: Frederick Kilgour's algorithm for forming search keys for automated library catalogs was tested in a file of about 2000 books in science and technology and in a file of about 2000 books in art and literature. Both 3–3 and 2–2 author‐title search keys were tested. It was found that both types of search keys yielded a significantly greater number of false‐drops in the file of science and technology than in the file of art and literature.

Date: 1974
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