LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING AND LINEAR RELEVANCE FEEDBACK IN TEXT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL THEORY

  • Yang, Ki-Choon (Department of Mathematics University of Texas-Pan American)
  • Published : 1999.03.01

Abstract

We give a mathematically rigorous description of the recently popular latent semantic indexing (LSI) method in text information retrieval theory. Also, a related problem of finding a document ranking function in linear relevance feedback is discussed.

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