id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-8935 Fokker, Dirk W.; Lynch, Michael F. Application of the Variety-Generator Approach to Searches of Personal Names in Bibliographic Data Bases--Part 1. Microstructure of Personal Authors' Names 1974-06-01 14 .pdf application/pdf 4971 218 64 The problem of variations in name length, as well as the very dif- ferent distributions of the characters at these positions, were not encourag- ing, and instead the production of key-sets from the last letter of the sur- 1 .99 .98 .97 .96 .95 .94 .93 Hr .92 .91 .90 .89 .88 .87 .86 0 20 40 60 80 100 Total number of keys for the front of surnames Fig. 3. Increase in relative entropy with increase in key-set size; keys generated from 50,000 surnames 114 J oumal of Library Automation Vol. 7/2 June 1974 name was investigated, and proved much more ath·active, since it is largely independent of surname length. cache/ital-8935.pdf txt/ital-8935.txt