Outline for an information theoretic search engine
Independant researcher, Wagenigen, Netherlands
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computational Linguistics
- Keywords
- information theory, search engine, search egine as RADAR
- Copyright
- © 2015 Vanderwilt
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- 2015. Outline for an information theoretic search engine. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1400v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1400v2
Abstract
It is proposed an information theoretic search engine is like RADAR. The query words are the emitted signals and the document database is the object to be detected. Various echoes come off the database, and analogous with echo cancelation, the signal with the lowest entropy is selected. Commensurate with Shannon's theory, low entropy documents are signal, higher entropy documents are noise. Thus, my proposal separates signal from noise. As many relevant documents can be tined to be signal as desired.
Author Comment
In the previous version, I should have used 'entropy minimization' rather than 'echo cancellation'. 'Entropy minimization' is how the clearest picture is focused on for ISAR.