Toward Large-Scale Information Retrieval Using Latent Semant(8)

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

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2.1Localweightingfunctions

2.2Globalweightingfunctions

2.3ApictorialrepresentationoftheSVD

3.1ThequeryphaseoftheLSImodel

3.2AtypicalrelevancefeedbackqueryintheBellcoreimplementation

3.3Theserialtimecomplexity

3.4Asimpleblockeddatadistribution

3.5Thedistributedtimecomplexity

3.6TheLSI++inheritancehierarchy

3.7TheLSI++serialpart-ofhierarchy

3.8TheLSI++distributedpart-ofhierarchy

4.1Client-servercommunication

4.2TheformatofaUniformResourceLocator(URL)

4.3AnHTMLanchor

4.4ACGI-encodedstringanditscorrespondingkey-valuepairs

4.5TheLSI:Bookform

4.6TheinitialLSI:Queryform

4.7ThesubsequentLSI:Queryform( rstregion)

4.8ThesubsequentLSI:Queryform(secondregion)

4.9ThesubsequentLSI:Queryform( nalregion)

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