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Information Extraction and Retrieval - IIIT Hyderabad

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Classic IR Models - Basic Concepts<br />

• Not all terms are equally useful for representing the<br />

document contents: less frequent terms allow identifying<br />

a narrower set of documents<br />

• The importance of the index terms is represented by<br />

weights associated to them<br />

• Let<br />

– k i be an index term<br />

– d j be a document<br />

– w ij is a weight associated with (k i ,d j )<br />

• The weight w ij quantifies the importance of the index<br />

term for describing the document contents<br />

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