Vector Space Model - Advantages

Advantages

The vector space model has the following advantages over the Standard Boolean model:

  1. Simple model based on linear algebra
  2. Term weights not binary
  3. Allows computing a continuous degree of similarity between queries and documents
  4. Allows ranking documents according to their possible relevance
  5. Allows partial matching

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