Abstract

In this information-oriented society that we live in, a method of retrieving necessary information is needed. Obtaining necessary information, by information retrieval using the Boolean method, which uses keywords given by the user, narrows corresponding documents down to the thousands or ten thousands, which results in the user not knowing which document to look at first. Therefore, by transferring the user's retrieval query and documents into quantitative values and ranking the requested information in order of relation to the user's demand, it is needed to give the user information that fits the user's demand. As a calculation method to transfer the retrieval query and the documents into quantitative values, the vector space model exists, but this paper shows that the method of ranking information, using the concept-base and the degree of association, is effective.