A simple probabilistic explanation of term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) heuristic (and variations motivated by this explanation)

Lukás Havrlant, Vladik Kreinovich. A simple probabilistic explanation of term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) heuristic (and variations motivated by this explanation). Int. J. General Systems, 46(1):27-36, 2017. [doi]

@article{HavrlantK17,
  title = {A simple probabilistic explanation of term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) heuristic (and variations motivated by this explanation)},
  author = {Lukás Havrlant and Vladik Kreinovich},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1080/03081079.2017.1291635},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2017.1291635},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/HavrlantK17},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Int. J. General Systems},
  volume = {46},
  number = {1},
  pages = {27-36},
}