# Heaps 1978: Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects

> H. S. Heaps, 1978. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey cites it for the vocabulary-growth statistic.

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# Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects

H. S. Heaps, 1978. _Academic Press_.

A 1978 textbook on information retrieval, remembered for Heaps' law: how a text's vocabulary grows with its length.

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The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey cites it for the vocabulary-growth statistic.

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Heaps, H. S. (1978). Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects. Academic Press. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6796482W
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