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A vector space model for automatic indexing

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G. Salton,

A. Wong, and

C. S. YangAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 18, Issue 11

Pages 613 - 620

https://doi.org/10.1145/361219.361220

Published: 01 November 1975 Publication History

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In a document retrieval, or other pattern matching environment where stored entities (documents) are compared with each other or with incoming patterns (search requests), it appears that the best indexing (property) space is one where each entity lies as far away from the others as possible; in these circumstances the value of an indexing system may be expressible as a function of the density of the object space; in particular, retrieval performance may correlate inversely with space density. An approach based on space density computations is used to choose an optimum indexing vocabulary for a collection of documents. Typical evaluation results are shown, demonstating the usefulness of the model.

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A vector space model for automatic indexing
1. Information systems
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    1. Document representation
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      1. Search engine indexing

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Communications of the ACM Volume 18, Issue 11

Nov. 1975

54 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/361219

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Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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