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11 think of retrieval effectiveness in terms of precision and recall ...Bibliographic remarks The best introduction to information retrieval is probably got by reading some of the early papers in the field ...One early publication worth reading which is rather hard to come by is the report on the Cranfield II project by Cleverdon et al ...Papers on information retrieval have a tendency to get published in journals on computer science and library science ...
8 The process may involve structuring the information in some appropriate way,such as classifying it ...Finally,we come to the output,which is usually a set of citations or document numbers ...IR in perspective This section is not meant to constitute an attempt at an exhaustive and complete account of the historical development of IR ...Since the emphasis in this book is on a particular approach to document representation,I shall restrict myself here to a few remarks about its history ...At this point,it may be convenient to elaborate on the use of keyword ...The use of statistical information about distributions of words in documents was further exploited by Maron and Kuhns [11]who obtained statistical associations between keywords ...
111 Six PROBABILISTIC RETRIEVAL Introduction So far in this book we have made very little use of probability theory in modelling any sub system in IR ...Perhaps it is as well to warn the reader that some of the material in this chapter is rather mathematical ...