Abstract
This study evaluated the applicability of the static hierarchic clustering model to clustering query results in OPAC. Two clustering methods(Between Average Linkage(BAL) and Complete Linkage(CL)) and two similarity coefficients(Dice and Jaccard) were tested on the query results retrieved from 16 title-based keyword searchings. The precision of optimal dusters was improved more than 100% compared with title-word searching. There was no difference between similarity coefficients but clustering methods in optimal cluster effectiveness. CL method is better in precision ratio but BAL is better in recall ratio at the optimal top-level and bottom-level clusters. However the differences are not significant except higher recall ratio of BAL at the top-level duster. Small number of clusters and long chain of hierarchy for optimal cluster resulted from BAL could not be desirable and efficient.
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