Probabilistic Model Tutorial

This is an updated version of a tutorial on the Robertson-Spärck-Jones Probabilistic Model. It is available now at Click to … More

A Tutorial on Standard Errors

Our tutorial on standard errors is back! It is now available at Click to access a-tutorial-on-standard-errors.pdf We have edited and … More

This is Part 3 of an introductory tutorial series on Term Vector Theory. The classic term frequency-inverse document frequency model … More

This is Part 2 of our introductory tutorial series on Term Vector Theory as used in Information Retrieval and Data … More

1. Starting with our classic Term Vector Theory series, we are republishing our series of tutorials on Information Retrieval from … More

Two new legacy tutorials aimed at those data mining information security and written way back, in 2009, are now available … More

As reviewer of journal manuscripts and conference papers I normally look to see if the piece before me answers the … More

I forget to mention that I’m attending ICANN this week, so most will be legacy posts –straight from the conference. … More

This is a great topic for a graduate thesis: Traditional IR considers the problem of matching documents to a query … More

Often a distinction between the terms given in the title of this post is not clear in the literature. Closeness … More