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vector space model: a standalone construct

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Information retrieval

documents and queries represented as vectors of term weights and matched by their similarity.

In information retrieval, vector space model refers to documents and queries represented as vectors of term weights and matched by their similarity. This meaning comes from Salton (1975) in Communications of the ACM. Here vector space model is this specific meaning.[1]

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References

Salton, G., Wong, A., & Yang, C. S. (1975). A vector space model for automatic indexing. Communications of the ACM, 18(11), 613-620. https://doi.org/10.1145/361219.361220

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