{{Short description|Model for representing text documents}}
'''Vector space model''' or '''term vector model''' is an algebraic model for representing text documents (andor anymore objectsgenerally, in generalitems) as [[vector space|vectors]] ofsuch identifiersthat (suchthe asdistance indexbetween terms)vectors represents the relevance between the documents. It is used in [[information filtering]], [[information retrieval]], [[index (search engine)|index]]ing and relevancy rankings. Its first use was in the [[SMART Information Retrieval System]].
