In document retrieval task, random projection (RP) is a useful technique of dimension reduction. It can be obtained very quickly yet the recalculation is not necessary to any chang...
We propose a method for supporting query refinement using topical term clusters. First, we propose a new term weighting method that can extract terms strongly related to a specifi...
This paper introduces a scheme, which we call the baseline method, to define a measure of term representativeness and measures defined by using the scheme. The representativeness ...
The emergence of the world-wide-web has led to an increased interest in methods for searching for information. A key characteristic of many of the online document collections is t...
Inverse document frequency (IDF) is one of the most useful and widely used concepts in information retrieval. There have been various attempts to provide theoretical justification...