Real Number Score

A Real Number Score is a scoring function score that is a real number.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Positive Real Number Score to being a Non-Negative Real Number Score to being a Non-Positive Real Number Score to being a Negative Real Number Score.
• Example(s):
  • tf-idf Score.
  • IDF Score.
  • PMI Score.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Integer Number Score.
• See: Scoring Function, Vector.

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References

2007

• (Pazzani & Billsus, 2007) ⇒ Michael J. Pazzani, and Daniel Billsus. (2007). “Content-based Recommendation Systems.” In: The adaptive web. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
  • QUOTE: ... associated with a term is a real number that represents the importance or relevance. This value is called the tf*idf weight (term-frequency times inverse document frequency). ...

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