A Case Study in Web Search Using TREC Algorithms - http://www.www10.org/cdrom/papers/317/
This study evaluates the performance of a state-of-the-art keyword-based document ranking algorithm (coming out of TREC) on a popular web search task. |
Document Ranking and the Vector-Space Model. - http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dlee/Papers/ir/ieee-sw-rank.ps.gz
It describes key issues in document ranking techniques based on the vector space model. Several TF*IDF variants are discussed. The cosine measure, recall and precision are introduced. [PS format] |
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. |
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. |
Is This Document Relevant? ...Probably - http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~iain/papers/98-csur.pdf
A survey of probabilistic models in information retrieval. |
Latent Semantic Indexing: a Probabilistic Analysis - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/ir.ps
Formal introduction to latent semantic indexing. [PS format] |
PageRank for Product Image Search - http://www.www2008.org/papers/fp506.html
Conference paper by Yushi Jing and Shumeet Baluja. Includes full-text PDF download. |
Probabilistic Models in Information Retrieval - http://www.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/bib/docs/Fuhr_92.html
Introduction to probabilistic models. |
Probabilistic Retrieval - http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Chapter.6/Ch.6.html
A Chapter in a book which introduces probabilistic retrieval. |
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. |