Probabilistic Information Retrieval Part ISurvey.pptVIP

Probabilistic Information RetrievalPart I: Survey Alexander Dekhtyar department of Computer Science University of Maryland Outline Part I: Survey: Why use probabilities ? Where to use probabilities ? How to use probabilities ? Part II: In Depth: Probability Ranking Principle Boolean Independence Retrieval model Why Use Probabilities ? Standard IR techniques Empirical for most part success measured by experimental results few properties provable This is not unexpected Sometimes want properties of methods Probabilistic IR Probabilistic Ranking Principle provable “minimization of risk” Probabil