Talk:Vector space model

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Topic-based Vector Space Model

Removed link to "topic based" vector space model which appears to be self promotion, plagarism, or both. Highly unlikely to meet wikipedia's quality standards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.207.93.61 (talk) 21:52, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Limitations

This article talks about the limitations of the vector space model but doesn't discuss alternative approaches that might fare better on these aspects. I think the article would be much improved if someone with relevant expertise added an "Alternative Approaches" section or at least a list of links to articles about other ways of tackling the text indexing problem. I take it that an Inverted Index (already linked in the See Also section) is one such alternative but it would still be informative to know how those two compare (and what other approaches there are). Brianwc (talk) 19:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the limitations section could use some work - in addition to there being alternative approaches, there are also many ways to work around these limitations while still taking advantage of a vector space model. The S-Space Package, for example, makes heavy use of vector space models but its algorithms variously manage to overcome some of these limitations (all of them, I believe, except for the loss of the order in which terms appear) using clever mathematical and linguistic tricks. I don't have time to work on it now (because I'm too busy with a thesis heavily employing vector space models!) but for the time being have put a little note clarifying that these are not impossible limitations to overcome. Sir Tobek (talk) 01:06, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]