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Term Weighting
- Vector Space, 5 Different Term Weighting approaches
➤ An Illustration
² Term Frequency:
² The number of occurrences of a term in a text is
called Term Frequency
² Motivation:
² If a document has one query term with a very high
term frequency then the document is (often) not
better than another document that has two query
terms with somewhat lower term frequencies
² More occurrences of a match should not out-
contribute fewer occurrences of several matches
² This factor