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We exploit the Feller-Pareto characterization of the classical Pareto distribution to derive a law relating the probability of a given term frequency in a document and its the length. A similar law was derived by Mandelbrot. We exploit the paretian distribution to obtain a term frequency normalization to substitute for the actual term frequency in the probabilistic models of Information Retrieval recently introduced in TREC-10. Preliminary results show that the unique parameter of the framework can be eliminated in favour of the the term frequency normalization derived by the Paretian law.
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Amati, G., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (2002). Term Frequency Normalization via Pareto Distributions. In: Crestani, F., Girolami, M., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45886-7_13
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