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# Information Retrieval

## TF/IDF

### Term Frequency (TF)

TF: number of times term t occurs in document (or alternative: number of terms divided by length of document)

$$TF(t, d)=Count(times\ of\ term\ t\ appearing\ in\ d)$$

### Inverse Document Frequency (IDF)

IDF: logarithm of number of documents (in corpus) divided by number of documents containing term t

$$IDF(t)=\log{{Count(documents\ in\ total)}\over{Count(documents\ containing\ term\ t)}}$$

### TF-IDF

$$TF\_IDF(t, d)=TF(t, d) \* IDF(t)$$

## Cosine Similarity

Cosine of the Angle Between the Vectors. Range is \[0, 1]. The higher the value, the more similar the vectors.

$$Cosine(v1, v2) = \frac{v\_1 \cdot v\_2}{\sqrt{{v\_1}^2} \cdot \sqrt{{v\_2}^2}}$$

### Example

$$v1 = \[0, 5, 0, 5, 0]$$

$$v2 = \[0, 7, 0, 9, 0]$$

$$Cosine(v1, v2) = {{0*0+5*7+0*0+5*9+0\*0}\over{\sqrt{0^2+5^2+0^2+5^2+0^2}+\sqrt{0^2+7^2+0^2+9^2+0^2}}} = 0.992$$


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