Exploring a Multidimensional Representation of Documents and Queries (extended version)

Understand

In Information Retrieval (IR), whether implicitly or explicitly, queries and documents are often represented as vectors.

• However, it may be more beneficial to consider documents and/or queries as multidimensional objects.
• Our belief is this would allow building "truly" interactive IR systems, i.e., where interaction is fully incorporated in the IR framework.
• The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics represents events and densities as multidimensional objects.