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  1. Information Science Department, School of Social Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    Ibrahim Abu El-Khair

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Library, Archival & Information Studies, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Edie Rasmussen

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Abu El-Khair, I. (2018). Term Weighting. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_943

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