An evaluation of some conflation algorithms for information retrieval
Martin Lennon, David S. Peirce, Brian D. Tarry, Peter Willett · Journal of Information Science · 1981
The characteristics of conflation algorithms are discussed and examples given of some algorithms which have been used for information retrieval systems. Comparative experiments with a range of keyword dictionaries and with the Cranfield document test collection suggest that there is relatively little difference in the performance of the algorithms despite the widely disparate means by which they have been developed and by which they operate.