Thermodynamics of Information Retrieval

Details Thermodynamics of Information Retrieval Thermodynamics of Information Retrieval

2009-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/0903.2792v3

Computer Science

Information Theory

12 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

In this work, we suggest a parameterized statistical model (the gamma distribution) for the frequency of word occurrences in long strings of English text and use this model to build a corresponding thermodynamic picture by constructing the partition function. We then use our partition function to compute thermodynamic quantities such as the free energy and the specific heat. In this approach, the parameters of the word frequency model vary from word to word so that each word has a different corresponding thermodynamics and we suggest that differences in the specific heat reflect differences in how the words are used in language, differentiating keywords from common and function words. Finally, we apply our thermodynamic picture to the problem of retrieval of texts based on keywords and suggest some advantages over traditional information retrieval methods.

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