Limits of Vector Space

• No sharp cutoffs

• Polysemy

  • try lots of query terms
    • user might now know any
    • add automatically?

• Synonomy

  • synonyms are orthogonal
  • can still try thesaurus
    • polysemous terms reduce precision
    • can also reduce recall (norms)

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