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Weighting and matching against Indices

The Bible Code as Ouija Board: The fascination with the subliminal, the camouflaged, and the encrypted is ancient. Getting a computer to munch away at long strings of letters from the Old Testament is not that different from killing animals and interpreting the entrails, or pouring out tea and reading the leaves. It does add the modern impersonal touch - a computer found it, not a person, so it must be ``really there." But computers find what people tell them to find. As the programmers like to say, ``prophesy in, prophesy out." [Menaud96] \eq

Subsections

• 3.1 Microscopic semantics and the statistics of communication
• 3.2 Rembember Zipf
• 3.3 A statistical basis for keyword meaning
• 3.4 Vector space
• 3.5 Matching queries against documents
• 3.6 Calculating TF-IDF Weighting
• 3.7 Computing partial match scores
• 3.8 Conclusion

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