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IR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
A probability ranking principle for interactive information retrieval
The classical Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) forms the theoretical basis for probabilistic Information Retrieval (IR) models, which are dominating IR theory since about 20 ye...
Norbert Fuhr
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Estimating interference in the QPRP for subtopic retrieval
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Claudia Hauff, Keith...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
What can quantum theory bring to information retrieval
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Portfolio theory of information retrieval
This paper studies document ranking under uncertainty. It is tackled in a general situation where the relevance predictions of individual documents have uncertainty, and are depen...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang