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		eesmith on June 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new method of recording and searching informatio... Yes. Stop words are also attributed to him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word#History_of_stop_word...

Animats on June 27, 2024 [–]

Also KWIC indices, hashing, ...[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn

jll29 on June 27, 2024 | [–]

Yes, the same Hans Peter Luhn (German-born U.S.-American researcher mostly with IBM R&D - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn). He also single-handedly invented automatic document summarization and knowledge management.

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