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New Term Weighting Formulas for the Vector Space Method in Information Retrieval

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5698· OSTI ID:5698
The goal in information retrieval is to enable users to automatically and accurately find data relevant to their queries. One possible approach to this problem i use the vector space model, which models documents and queries as vectors in the term space. The components of the vectors are determined by the term weighting scheme, a function of the frequencies of the terms in the document or query as well as throughout the collection. We discuss popular term weighting schemes and present several new schemes that offer improved performance.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-96OR22464
OSTI ID:
5698
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-13756
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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