Re: Lucene's use of vectors

2012-03-02 Thread Robert Muir
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mike O'Leary wrote: > In the Javadoc page for the Similarity class, it says, > > "Lucene combines Boolean model (BM) of Information Retrieval with Vector > Space Model (VSM) of Information Retrieval - documents "approved" by BM are > scored by VSM." > > Is the Vec

Lucene's use of vectors

2012-03-01 Thread Mike O'Leary
In the Javadoc page for the Similarity class, it says, "Lucene combines Boolean model (BM) of Information Retrieval with Vector Space Model (VSM) of Information Retrieval - documents "approved" by BM are scored by VSM." Is the Vector Space Model that is referred to here different than the term