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Low-rank orthogonal decompositions for information retrieval applications. (English) Zbl 0905.68060
Authors’ abstract: Current methods to index and retrieve documents from databases usually depend on a lexical match between query terms and keywords extracted from documents in database. These methods can produce incomplete or irrelevant results due to the use of synonyms and polysemus words. The association of terms with documents (or implicit semantic structure) can be derived using large sparse term-by document matrices. In fact, both terms and documents can be matched with user queries using representations in $$k$$-space (where $$100\leq k\leq 200$$) derived from $$k$$ of the largest approximate singular vectors of these terms-by-document matrices. This completely automated approach called latent semantic indexing or LSI, uses subspaces spanned by the approximate singular vectors to encode important associative relationships between terms and documents in $$k$$-spaces. Using LSI, two or more documents may be close to each other in $$k$$-space (and hence meaning) yet share no common terms. The focus of this work is to demonstrate the computational advantages of exploiting low-rank orthogonal decomposition such as the ULV (or URV) as opposed to the truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) for the construction of initial and updated rank-$$k$$ subspaces arising from LSI applications.
Reviewer: J.Zítko (Praha)

##### MSC:
 68P20 Information storage and retrieval of data 65F20 Numerical solutions to overdetermined systems, pseudoinverses
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