2. Development of the model
This section introduces the Topic-based Vector Space Model (TVSM). Relations to other vector-based models, in particular the Vector Space Model (VSM) [Salton 1968; Baezea-Yates 1999, pp. 27-30] and the Generalized Vector Space Model (GVSM) [Wong 1987; Baezea-Yates 1999, pp. 41-44], are discussed in section 4.