Metric data models and associated search strategies

  • Authors:
  • Lev Goldfarb

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGIR Forum
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

I believe that the concept of a metric (or a dissimilarity measure) defined on a set of records is one of the most fundamental concepts related to information retrieval, although historically, the first science to introduce this concept as a basic one was, perhaps, numerical taxonomy. In the metric model the concept of the most relevant record should be interpreted as that of the closest (with respect to the chosen metric) record.