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  <Title>The Importance of Proper Weighting Methods</Title>
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ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The importance of good weighting methods in information retrieval -- methods that stress the most useful features of a document or query representative -- is examined. Evidence is presented that good weighting methods are more important than the feature selection process and it is suggested that the two need to go hand-in-hand in order to be effective. The paper concludes with a method for learning a good weight for a term based upon the characteristics of that term.</Paragraph>
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