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- CS726 Information Retrieval Techniques
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Lecture # 2
- Boolean Retrieval Model
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The presentation of this lecture has been taken from the following sources
- “Introduction to information retrieval” by Prabhakar Raghavan, Christopher D. Manning, and Hinrich Schütze
- “Managing gigabytes” by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell
- “Modern information retrieval” by Baeza-Yates Ricardo,
- “Web Information Retrieval” by Stefano Ceri, Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla
Outline
What is Information Retrieval ? ? ?
IR Models The Boolean Model Considerations on the Boolean Model
What is Information Retrieval ? ? ?
Information retrieval (IR) deals with the representation, storage, organization of, and access to information items.
Baeza-Yates, Ribeiro-Nieto, 1999 Information retrieval (IR) is devoted to finding relevant documents, not finding simple match to patterns. Grossman - Frieder, 2004 Information retrieval (IR) is finding material (usually documents) of an
unstructured
nature
(usually text) that satisfy an information need from within large collections (usually stored on computers).
Manning et al., 2007
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