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Probabilistic Retrieval - http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Chapter.6/Ch.6.html
A Chapter in a book which introduces probabilistic retrieval. |
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Latent Semantic Indexing: a Probabilistic Analysis - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/ir.ps
Formal introduction to latent semantic indexing. [PS format] |
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Ranking Algorithms - http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/iradsbook/irbook.html
"Ranking Algorithms" is chapter 14 in the Frakes and Baeza-Yates book. It gives a good discussion of the tradeoffs and choices among different term-weighting strategies. |
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Information Retrieval Tutorial - http://isp.imm.dtu.dk/thor/projects/multimedia/textmining/
Description of boolean retrieval, vector space model, probabilistic retrieval, latent semantic indexing and other IR topics. An introduction to various classical ranking methods is also provided. |
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Exploring the Similarity Space - http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jz/fulltext/sigirforum98.pdf
Evaluation of many combinations of term frequency statistics, document frequency statistics and document length normalization. |