Advantages
The vector space model has the following advantages over the Standard Boolean model:
- Simple model based on linear algebra
- Term weights not binary
- Allows computing a continuous degree of similarity between queries and documents
- Allows ranking documents according to their possible relevance
- Allows partial matching
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