I am deeply indebted to Dr. Michael Berry, my major advisor, for his kind guidance and support. I also thank Dr. Susan Dumais, director of the Information Sciences Research Group at Bellcore, for her technical advice. In addition, she graciously allowed us
Contents
1Introduction
1.1MotivationandGoals
1.2TheFutureofInformationTechnology
1.2.1DataMining
1.2.2DigitalLibraries
1.2.3InformationFiltering
1.3TheDevelopmentofanLSIProgrammingLibrary
2Vector-SpaceModelsforInformationRetrieval
2.1IntroductiontoVector-SpaceModels
2.2EarlyWork
2.2.1H.P.LuhnandtheOriginofVector-SpaceModels
2.2.2BorkoandBernickonReduced-SpaceDocumentClassi cation
2.2.3SaltonandtheSMARTInformationRetrievalSystem
2.2.4SparckJonesandGlobalWeighting
2.2.5KollandReduced-SpaceModelsforInformationRetrieval
2.2.6SaltonandBuckleyonRelevanceFeedback
2.3LatentSemanticIndexing
2.3.1Term-DocumentRepresentation
2.3.2Weighting
2.3.3ComputingtheSVD
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