Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure.

George W. Furnas, Scott C. Deerwester, Susan T. Dumais, Thomas K. Landauer, Richard A. Harshman, Lynn A. Streeter, Karen E. Lochbaum: Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure. SIGIR 1988: 465-480

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/FurnasDDLHSL88,
  author    = {George W. Furnas and
               Scott C. Deerwester and
               Susan T. Dumais and
               Thomas K. Landauer and
               Richard A. Harshman and
               Lynn A. Streeter and
               Karen E. Lochbaum},
  editor    = {Yves Chiaramella},
  title     = {Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model
               of Latent Semantic Structure},
  booktitle = {SIGIR'88, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM SIGIR
               Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
               Grenoble, France, June 13-15, 1988},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1988},
  pages     = {465-480},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/FurnasDDLHSL88.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/88},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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Abstract

In a new method for automatic indexing and retrieval, implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents is modeled to improve estimates of term-document association, and therefore the detection of relevant documents on the basis of terms found in queries. Singular-value decomposition is used to decompose a large term by document matrix into 50 to 150 orthogonal factors from which the original matrix can be approximated by linear combination; both documents and terms are represented as vectors in a 50- to 150- dimensional space. Queries are represented as pseudo-documents vectors formed from weighted combinations of terms, and documents are ordered by their similarity to the query. Initial tests find this automatic method very promising.

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Yves Chiaramella (Ed.): SIGIR'88, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Grenoble, France, June 13-15, 1988. ACM 1988
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Jon M. Kleinberg, Andrew Tomkins: Applications of Linear Algebra in Information Retrieval and Hypertext Analysis. PODS 1999: 185-193

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