13th February 2006 — Information Retrieval (cont)
Katherine and Ed will continue presenting information retrieval from last week.
Readings:
- Probabilistic relevance models based on document and query generation, John Lafferty and Chengxiang Zhai, Language Modeling for Information Retrieval, 13, 2003.
- Chapter 4 of Probabilistic document modelling, Philip J. Cowans, draft PhD thesis, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 2005.