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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2009

Information retrieval; Internet searching; Keyword searching; Vector spaces--Data processing

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A Study Of Relevance Feedback In Vector Space Model, Deepthi Katta May 2009

A Study Of Relevance Feedback In Vector Space Model, Deepthi Katta

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Information Retrieval is the science of searching for information or documents based on information need from a huge set of documents. It has been an active field of research since early 19th century and different models of retrieval came in to existence to cater the information need.

This thesis starts with understanding some of the basic information retrieval models, followed by implementation of one of the most popular statistical retrieval model known as Vector Space Model. This model ranks the documents in the collection based on the similarity measure calculated between the query and the respective document. The user …