The amount of text that is generated every day is increasing dramatically. This tremendous
volume of mostly unstructured text cannot be simply processed and perceived by computers …

For thousands of years people have realized the importance of archiving and finding
information. With the advent of computers, it became possible to store large amounts of …

As recently as the 1990s, studies showed that most people preferred getting information
from other people rather than from information retrieval systems. Of course, in that time …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Abstract Models of document indexing and docu-ment retrieval have been extensively
studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several …

This paper proposes evaluation methods based on the use of non-dichotomous relevance
judgements in IR experiments. It is argued that evaluation methods should credit IR methods …

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Page 1 Recap Big picture Ads Duplicate detection Spam Web IR Size of the web Introduction …

The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a
new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their …

The paper combines a comprehensive account of the probabilistic model of retrieval with
new systematic experiments on TREC Programme material. It presents the model from its …

We introduce and create a framework for deriving probabilistic models of Information
Retrieval. The models are nonparametric models of IR obtained in the language model …