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Table 1 Notations

From: Salient context-based semantic matching for information retrieval

Notations

Description

d

Single document

q

Single query

dj

The jth term in document

qi

The ith term in query

wi

The ith term vector in query

wj

The jth term vector in document

dl

Document length

avdl

Average document length of indexed documents in data

\(\mathbb {Q}\)

Set of query terms

\(|\mathbb {Q}|\)

Number of query terms

\(\mathbb {T}\)

Set of terms in the window

\(|\mathbb {T}|\)

The window width

N

Total number of indexed documents in data

n

Number of indexed documents that contain a term

IDF

Inverse document frequency

tf

Within-document term frequency

qtf

Within-query term frequency

co

Within-document co-currency

b1,k1,k3

Parameters in BM25

a,b, α,β

Parameters in our model