The SMART (System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text) Information Retrieval System is an

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system developed at

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in the 1960s. Many important concepts in information retrieval were developed as part of research on the SMART system, including the

vector space model Vector space model or term vector model is an algebraic model for representing text documents (and any objects, in general) as vectors of identifiers (such as index terms). It is used in information filtering, information retrieval, indexing an ...

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, and Rocchio classification.

Gerard Salton Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 in Nuremberg – 28 August 1995) was a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, an ...

led the group that developed SMART. Other contributors included

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. The SMART system also provides a set of corpora, queries and reference rankings, taken from different subjects, notably *

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: publications from information science reviews *

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collection: publications from aeronautic reviews *

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: library science *

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collection: publications from medical reviews *

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collection: archives of the generalist review ''Time'' in 1963 To the legacy of the SMART system belongs the so-called SMART triple notation, a mnemonic scheme for denoting tf-idf weighting variants in the vector space model. The mnemonic for representing a combination of weights takes the form ddd.qqq, where the first three letters represents the term weighting of the collection document vector and the second three letters represents the term weighting for the query document vector. For example, ltc.lnn represents the ltc weighting applied to a collection document and the lnn weighting applied to a query document. The following tables establish the SMART notation: The gray letters in the first, fifth, and ninth columns are the scheme used by Salton and Buckley in their 1988 paper.Salton, G., & Buckley, C. (1988)
Term-Weighting Approaches in Automatic Text Retrieval
''Inf. Process. Manage., 24'', 513-523. The bold letters in the second, sixth, and tenth columns are the scheme used in experiments reported thereafter.

References

External links

* tp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/smart/ Software and test collections(FTP at

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Interactive SMART tutorial
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