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Documents are represented as Vector s of index terms ( Keyword s). The set of terms is a predefined collection of terms, for example the set of all unique words occurring in the document Corpus .

Relevancy Ranking s of documents in a keyword search can be calculated, using the assumptions of Document Similarities theory, by comparing the deviation of angles between each document vector and the original query vector where the query is represented as same kind of vector as the documents.

In practice, it is easier to calculate the Cosine of the angle between the vectors instead of the angle:

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