weighting

IPA: wˈeɪtɪŋ

(figuratively) The weight or significance given to something, sometimes by means of a statistical multiplier.

Examples of "weighting" in Sentences

Relevancy ranking, based on automatic term weighting
The weighting is 50: 50 between the fans and Judge Panel.
· Provides a number of parameter-free DFR term weighting models for automatic query expansion.
The only way for the public to guage the effects of weighting is to look at the demographic numbers.
The FAST Query Language, which supports advanced query operators like XRANK for dynamic (query time) term weighting and ranking.
They're backing it up by being heavily defensive in a rising market, namely weighting their stock portfolios with two-thirds cash.
Thesaurus files also permit you to configure the word weighting and word stemming options in a replacement set or an expansion set.
The "dollar-weighting" is weighting that there actually was more shares (and more dollars) injected into the company when the new follow-on public offering was made.
Despite term weighting and selecting have been studied in great depth in IR field, generally these solutions are focus to selecting terms from a single document [13].
According to the ACM, she also discovered term weighting, a statistical method used to evaluate how important any given word is in a set of documents, and thus the word's significance for an individual document.