Common measures of term importance in information retrieval (IR) rely on counts of term frequency; rare terms receive higher weight in document ranking than common terms receive. ...
Abstract – The method of latent semantic indexing (LSI) is well known for tackling the synonymy and polysemy problems in information retrieval. However, its performance can be ve...
Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level...
: The work of corporate finance professionals is information intensive. In spite of that the practices and motivations of their information preferences have been researched very li...