On the Delusiveness of Adopting a Common Space for Modeling IR Objects: Are Queries Documents?

• Published in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 44; no. 110; p. 579
• Main Authors: Bollmann-Sdorra, Peter, Raghavan, Vijay V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.12.1993
• Subjects: Boolean; Experiments; Feedback; Information retrieval; Linearity; Queries; R&D; Relevance feedback; Research & development; Science; Semiotics; Similarity; Space; Vector space; New York; United States > US; Chicago Illinois

Many authors, who adopt the vector space model, take the view that documents, terms, queries, etc., are all elements within the same (conceptual) space. This view seems to be a natural one, given that documents and queries have the same vector no- tation. We show, however, that the structure of the...