Re: Word-Level Inverted File Structure

"Tim Mills" <tjm_at_orl.co.uk> wrote in message news:8s3r8l$6is$1_at_pea.uk.research.att.com...
> > > Ok. Let's try another guess: the number of documents that the word
 occurs in?
> >
> > Hmmmm - you may have it there. But one question.... what purpose would
that serve? It wouldn't really help in relevance ranking or sorting. Seems to me a bizarre thing to have in a string that contains more detailed information about the word.
>
> idf(t) says that if a term t appears frequently throughout a collection,
 it
> might
> not be a particularly good indicator of relevance.

Ahh, that makes sense. I didnt think of it that way.

Thank you lad(y)es and gentlem(a)n - I believe I have my answer. Much appreciated.

Pete Received on Thu Oct 12 2000 - 18:54:46 CEST