Lecture 3 retrieval model-I 2011.pptVIP

7/7/2005 7/7/2005 Lecture 1 Overview Lecture 1 Overview Lecture 3 Retrieval ModelsPart 1 Reference: James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst Pandu Nayak and Prabhakar Raghavan, Stanford University Partially modified by Qingcai Chen, HIT Shenzhen What is a retrieval model? Retrieval models (检索模型) can describe the computational process of IR e.g. how documents are ranked Note that how documents or indexes (索引) are stored is implementation Retrieval models can attempt to describe the human process e.g. the information need, interaction Retrieval variables