Text Retrieval using Linear Algebra

Text retrieval is an important area of research. As information and methods of its storage have proliferated, the need to have efficient methods of locating subsets of this information has increased as well. A widely-researched text searching method involves modeling a text collection in a term-by-document matrix, and evaluating the documents’ relevance to a query with simple linear algebra. This document is an abstract of research performed throughout 2001 and 2002, and presents one such system, developed to search the bsu-cs webserver.