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questions: How did this mistake occur, and how was it perpetuated to the degree that it was? The answer seems to lie in a misconception widely held even by people who cite Salton’s publications correctly: it is assumed that a description of the VSM must have been published sometime around 1975,
Abstract. Gerard Salton is often credited with developing the vector space model (VSM) for information retrieval (IR). Citations to Salton give the impression that the VSM must have been articulated as an IR model sometime between 1970 and 1975.
Abstract. Gerard Salton is often credited with developing the vector space model (VSM) for information retrieval (IR). Citations to Salton give the impression that the VSM must have been articulated as an IR model sometime between 1970 and 1975.
- David Dubin
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Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 – 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, and "the father of Information Retrieval".
In the 1960s Gerard Salton of Cornell University—now called “the father of information retrieval” and other similar titles—effectively took up Bush’s challenge. Leading teams of computer scientists at Harvard University and Cornell, Salton created the “System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text” (SMART).
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Sep 8, 1995 · Gerard Salton, a professor of computer science at Cornell University and a leading authority on information retrieval systems, died on Aug. 28 at Tompkins Community Hospital in Ithaca, N.Y.
