{"title":"Concavity in IR models","authors":"S. Clinchant","doi":"10.1145/2396761.2398686","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We study the impact of concavity in IR models and propose to use a generalized logarithm function, the n-logarithm to weight words in documents. We extend the family of information based Information Retrieval (IR) models with this function. We show that that concavity is indeed an important property of IR models. Experiments conducted for IR tasks, Latent Semantic Indexing and Text Categorization show improvements.","PeriodicalId":313414,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398686","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We study the impact of concavity in IR models and propose to use a generalized logarithm function, the n-logarithm to weight words in documents. We extend the family of information based Information Retrieval (IR) models with this function. We show that that concavity is indeed an important property of IR models. Experiments conducted for IR tasks, Latent Semantic Indexing and Text Categorization show improvements.