Term Vector model Based on Wi=Tfi*Dfi
Query Q=Home sales
Doc 1 = New home to home sales forecasts
Doc 2 = Rise in home sales in July
Doc 3 = Home purchase rise in July for new homes
Doc 4 = Month of new sales rise
D=4
IDFi=log(D/Dfi)
Terms Counts TF Wi=TFi*
Q D1 D2 D3 D4 Dfi D/Dfi IDFi Q
homes 1 2 1 2 0 5 1.00 0 0
in 0 0 2 1 0 3 1.33 0.124939 0
rise 0 0 1 1 1 3 1.33 0.124939 0
sales 1 1 1 0 1 3 1.33 0.124939 0.124939
to 0 1 0 0 0 1 4.00 0.60206 0
for 0 0 0 1 0 1 4.00 0.60206 0
forecasts 0 1 0 0 0 1 4.00 0.60206 0
july 0 0 1 1 0 2 2.00 0.30103 0
month 0 0 0 0 1 1 4.00 0.60206 0
new 0 1 0 1 1 3 1.33 0.124939 0
of 0 0 0 0 1 1 4.00 0.60206 0
purchase 0 0 0 1 0 1 4.00 0.60206 0
Q D1 D2 D3 D4 D1i2 D2i2 D3i2 D4i2 Qi2
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0.249877 0.124939 0 0 0.062439 0.01561 0 0
0 0 0.124939 0.124939 0.124939 0 0.01561 0.01561 0.01561 0
0.124939 0.124939 0.124939 0 0.124939 0.01561 0.01561 0 0.01561 0.01561
0 0.60206 0 0 0 0.362476 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0.60206 0 0 0 0.362476 0 0
0 0.60206 0 0 0 0.362476 0 0 0 0
0 0 0.30103 0.30103 0 0 0.090619 0.090619 0 0
0 0 0 0 0.60206 0 0 0 0.362476 0
0 0.124939 0 0.124939 0.124939 0.01561 0 0.01561 0.01561 0
0 0 0 0 0.60206 0 0 0 0.362476 0
0 0 0 0.60206 0 0 0 0.362476 0 0
sum 0.756172 0.184277 0.862401 0.771782 0.01561
|D1| |D2| |D3| |D4| |Q|
sqrt 0.869581 0.429275 0.928655 0.878511 0.124939
dot products
Q D1 D2 D3 D4 Q*D1 Q*D2 Q*D3 Q*D4
0 0 0 0 0 0.01561 0.01561 0 0.01561
0 0 0.249877 0.124939 0
0 0 0.124939 0.124939 0.124939
0.124939 0.124939 0.124939 0 0.124939
0 0.60206 0 0 0
0 0 0 0.60206 0
0 0.60206 0 0 0
0 0 0.30103 0.30103 0
0 0 0 0 0.60206
0 0.124939 0 0.124939 0.124939
0 0 0 0 0.60206
0 0 0 0.60206 0
similarity score
Sim(q,d1) Sim(q,d2) Sim(q,d3) Sim(q,d4)
0.143677 0.291046 0 0.142216
Rank
D1 0.143677 1
D2 0.291046 3
D3 1.184642 4
D4 0.284433 2
Prefered document is Doc 3
Wi=TFi*IDFi
D1 D2 D3 D4
0 0 0 0
0 0.249877 0.124939 0
0 0.124939 0.124939 0.124939
0.124939 0.124939 0 0.124939
0.60206 0 0 0
0 0 0.60206 0
0.60206 0 0 0
0 0.30103 0.30103 0
0 0 0 0.60206
0.124939 0 0.124939 0.124939
0 0 0 0.60206
0 0 0.60206 0
|Q|*|D1| 0.108644 Sim(Q,D1) 0.143677
|Q|*|D2| 0.053633 Sim(Q,D2) 0.291046
|Q|*|D3| 0.116025 Sim(Q,D3) 0
|Q|*|D4| 0.10976 Sim(Q,D4) 0.142216