%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 %R 10.1007/3-540-36227-4_11 %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.

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