IRS13 Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval An Experiment in Automatic Thesaurus Construction chapter R. T. Dattola D. M. Murray Harvard University Gerard Salton Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. vill-lo C C C C 5 17 29 31 1C21 1 1 1 1 1C52 1 1 0 0 1C83 0 0 1 1 C = concept IC = initial class (a[OCRerr],. Class-Concept Matrix C' IC IC IC 21 52 83 1C21 1 1 1 1C52 1 1 0 1C83 1 0 1 (b) Class-Class Matrix S' ½mflIC21IC83 (c) Graphs resulting from S', k = 1.0 C 1C211 IC52 [OCRerr] ( 1C211 1C83) (d) Merged Classes Formation of Merged Classes Fig. 3