The document discusses probabilistic retrieval models in information retrieval. It introduces three influential probabilistic models: (1) Maron and Kuhns' 1960 model which calculates the probability of relevance based on historical user data; (2) Salton's model which estimates the probability of term occurrence in relevant documents; (3) A model that ranks documents by the probability of relevance and considers retrieval as a decision between costs of retrieving non-relevant vs. not retrieving relevant documents. The document provides background on the development of probabilistic IR models and challenges of estimating probabilities for evaluation.
Probabilistic information retrieval models & systemsSelman Bozkır
The document discusses probabilistic information retrieval and Bayesian approaches. It introduces concepts like conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, and the probability ranking principle. It explains how probabilistic models estimate the probability of relevance between a document and query by representing them as term sets and making probabilistic assumptions. The goal is to rank documents by the probability of relevance to present the most likely relevant documents first.
The document discusses information retrieval models. It describes the Boolean retrieval model, which represents documents and queries as sets of terms combined with Boolean operators. Documents are retrieved if they satisfy the Boolean query, but there is no ranking of results. The Boolean model has limitations including difficulty expressing complex queries, controlling result size, and ranking results. It works best for simple, precise queries when users know exactly what they are searching for.
This document provides a full syllabus with questions and answers related to the course "Information Retrieval" including definitions of key concepts, the historical development of the field, comparisons between information retrieval and web search, applications of IR, components of an IR system, and issues in IR systems. It also lists examples of open source search frameworks and performance measures for search engines.
An inverted file indexes a text collection to speed up searching. It contains a vocabulary of distinct words and occurrences lists with information on where each word appears. For each term in the vocabulary, it stores a list of pointers to occurrences called an inverted list. Coarser granularity indexes use less storage but require more processing, while word-level indexes enable proximity searches but use more space. The document describes how inverted files are structured and constructed from text and discusses techniques like block addressing that reduce their space requirements.
Ppt evaluation of information retrieval systemsilambu111
The document discusses the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Evaluation is defined as systematically determining a subject's merit using a set of standards. The main purposes of evaluation are to compare the performance of different systems, assess how well systems meet their goals, and identify ways to improve effectiveness. Evaluation can consider managerial or user viewpoints. Common criteria include recall, precision, fallout, generality, effectiveness, efficiency, usability, satisfaction, and cost. Recall measures the proportion of relevant documents retrieved while precision measures the proportion of retrieved documents that are relevant. Evaluation helps identify ways to improve information retrieval system performance.
The Boolean model is a classical information retrieval model based on set theory and Boolean logic. Queries are specified as Boolean expressions to retrieve documents that either contain or do not contain the query terms. All term frequencies are binary and documents are retrieved based on an exact match to the query terms. However, this model has limitations as it does not rank documents and queries are difficult for users to translate into Boolean expressions, often returning too few or too many results.
The document discusses information retrieval, which involves obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection. The information retrieval process begins when a user submits a query. The system matches queries to database information, ranks objects based on relevance, and returns top results to the user. The process involves document acquisition and representation, user problem representation as queries, and searching/retrieval through matching and result retrieval.
Functions of information retrival system(1)silambu111
The document discusses information retrieval systems. It defines information retrieval as the process of searching collections of documents to identify those dealing with a particular subject. Information retrieval systems aim to facilitate literature searching. They involve representing, storing, organizing, and providing access to information items so that users can easily find information of interest. Information retrieval draws from multiple disciplines and involves subsystems for documents, users, and searching/matching.
Probabilistic information retrieval models & systemsSelman Bozkır
The document discusses probabilistic information retrieval and Bayesian approaches. It introduces concepts like conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, and the probability ranking principle. It explains how probabilistic models estimate the probability of relevance between a document and query by representing them as term sets and making probabilistic assumptions. The goal is to rank documents by the probability of relevance to present the most likely relevant documents first.
The document discusses information retrieval models. It describes the Boolean retrieval model, which represents documents and queries as sets of terms combined with Boolean operators. Documents are retrieved if they satisfy the Boolean query, but there is no ranking of results. The Boolean model has limitations including difficulty expressing complex queries, controlling result size, and ranking results. It works best for simple, precise queries when users know exactly what they are searching for.
This document provides a full syllabus with questions and answers related to the course "Information Retrieval" including definitions of key concepts, the historical development of the field, comparisons between information retrieval and web search, applications of IR, components of an IR system, and issues in IR systems. It also lists examples of open source search frameworks and performance measures for search engines.
An inverted file indexes a text collection to speed up searching. It contains a vocabulary of distinct words and occurrences lists with information on where each word appears. For each term in the vocabulary, it stores a list of pointers to occurrences called an inverted list. Coarser granularity indexes use less storage but require more processing, while word-level indexes enable proximity searches but use more space. The document describes how inverted files are structured and constructed from text and discusses techniques like block addressing that reduce their space requirements.
Ppt evaluation of information retrieval systemsilambu111
The document discusses the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Evaluation is defined as systematically determining a subject's merit using a set of standards. The main purposes of evaluation are to compare the performance of different systems, assess how well systems meet their goals, and identify ways to improve effectiveness. Evaluation can consider managerial or user viewpoints. Common criteria include recall, precision, fallout, generality, effectiveness, efficiency, usability, satisfaction, and cost. Recall measures the proportion of relevant documents retrieved while precision measures the proportion of retrieved documents that are relevant. Evaluation helps identify ways to improve information retrieval system performance.
The Boolean model is a classical information retrieval model based on set theory and Boolean logic. Queries are specified as Boolean expressions to retrieve documents that either contain or do not contain the query terms. All term frequencies are binary and documents are retrieved based on an exact match to the query terms. However, this model has limitations as it does not rank documents and queries are difficult for users to translate into Boolean expressions, often returning too few or too many results.
The document discusses information retrieval, which involves obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection. The information retrieval process begins when a user submits a query. The system matches queries to database information, ranks objects based on relevance, and returns top results to the user. The process involves document acquisition and representation, user problem representation as queries, and searching/retrieval through matching and result retrieval.
Functions of information retrival system(1)silambu111
The document discusses information retrieval systems. It defines information retrieval as the process of searching collections of documents to identify those dealing with a particular subject. Information retrieval systems aim to facilitate literature searching. They involve representing, storing, organizing, and providing access to information items so that users can easily find information of interest. Information retrieval draws from multiple disciplines and involves subsystems for documents, users, and searching/matching.
Boolean,vector space retrieval Models Primya Tamil
The document discusses various information retrieval models including Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic models. It provides details on how documents and queries are represented and compared in the vector space model. Specifically, it explains that in this model, documents and queries are represented as vectors of term weights in a multi-dimensional space. The similarity between a document and query vector is calculated using measures like the inner product or cosine similarity to retrieve and rank documents.
1. The document defines key terms related to information retrieval systems such as information, retrieval, system, and discusses the basic components and functions of IRS.
2. It explains that the role of users is to formulate queries, and the role of librarians is to assist users in meeting their information needs.
3. The document contrasts older IRS that retrieved entire documents with modern IRS that allow storage, organization, and access to text and multimedia information through techniques like keyword searching and hyperlinks.
Indexing Techniques: Their Usage in Search Engines for Information RetrievalVikas Bhushan
1. The document discusses indexing techniques and their usage in modern search engines. It covers the transition from manual to automated indexing and different indexing methods.
2. Current trends in indexing and information retrieval are discussed such as XML indexing and its components. Future applications for indexers are also mentioned.
3. The conclusion emphasizes enhancements to indexing procedures like weighted indexing and linking of terms to improve retrieval of accurate information.
Information retrieval 13 alternative set theoretic modelsVaibhav Khanna
Alternative Set Theoretic Models
Fuzzy Set Model :a set theoretic model of document retrieval based on fuzzy theory.
Extended Boolean Model:a set theoretic model of document retrieval based on an extension of the classic Boolean model. The idea is to interpret partial matches as Euclidean distances represented in a vectorial space of index terms.
Vector space model or term vector model is an algebraic model for representing text documents as vectors of identifiers, such as, for example, index terms. It is used in information filtering, information retrieval, indexing and relevancy rankings. Its first use was in the SMART Information Retrieval System
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models. It begins with definitions of information retrieval and how it differs from data retrieval. It then discusses the retrieval process and logical representations of documents. A taxonomy of IR models is presented including classic, structured, and browsing models. Boolean, vector, and probabilistic models are explained as examples of classic models. The document concludes with descriptions of ad-hoc retrieval and filtering tasks and formal characteristics of IR models.
INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
This lecture will introduce the information retrieval problem, introduce the terminology related to IR, and provide a history of IR. In particular, the history of the web and its impact on IR will be discussed. Special attention and emphasis will be given to the concept of relevance in IR and the critical role it has played in the development of the subject. The lecture will end with a conceptual explanation of the IR process, and its relationships with other domains as well as current research developments.
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MODELS
This lecture will present the models that have been used to rank documents according to their estimated relevance to user given queries, where the most relevant documents are shown ahead to those less relevant. Many of these models form the basis for many of the ranking algorithms used in many of past and today’s search applications. The lecture will describe models of IR such as Boolean retrieval, vector space, probabilistic retrieval, language models, and logical models. Relevance feedback, a technique that either implicitly or explicitly modifies user queries in light of their interaction with retrieval results, will also be discussed, as this is particularly relevant to web search and personalization.
The document discusses the vector space model for representing text documents and queries in information retrieval systems. It describes how documents and queries are represented as vectors of term weights, with each term being assigned a weight based on its frequency in the document or query. The vector space model allows documents and queries to be compared by calculating the similarity between their vector representations. Terms that are more frequent in a document and less frequent overall are given higher weights through techniques like TF-IDF weighting. This vector representation enables efficient retrieval of documents ranked by similarity to the query.
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models, including vector space models, TF-IDF, Doc2Vec, and latent semantic analysis. It begins with basic concepts in information retrieval like document indexing and relevance scoring. Then it discusses vector space models and how documents and queries are represented as vectors. TF-IDF weighting is explained as assigning higher weight to rare terms. Doc2Vec is introduced as an extension of word2vec to learn document embeddings. Latent semantic analysis uses singular value decomposition to project documents to a latent semantic space. Implementation details and examples are provided for several models.
The document discusses different theories used in information retrieval systems. It describes cognitive or user-centered theories that model human information behavior and structural or system-centered theories like the vector space model. The vector space model represents documents and queries as vectors of term weights and compares similarities between queries and documents. It was first used in the SMART information retrieval system and involves assigning term vectors and weights to documents based on relevance.
The document discusses various information retrieval models, including:
1) Classic models like Boolean and vector space models that use index terms to represent documents and queries.
2) Probabilistic models that view IR as estimating the probability of relevance between documents and queries.
3) Structured models that incorporate document structure, including models based on non-overlapping text regions and hierarchical document structure.
4) Browsing models like flat, structure-guided, and hypertext models for navigating document collections.
The document discusses the World Wide Web and information retrieval on the web. It provides background on how the web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 using HTML, HTTP, and URLs. It then discusses some key differences in information retrieval on the web compared to traditional library systems, including the presence of hyperlinks, heterogeneous content, duplication of content, exponential growth in the number of documents, and lack of stability. It also summarizes some challenges in web search including the expanding nature of the web, dynamically generated content, influence of monetary contributions on search results, and search engine spamming.
This document discusses evaluation methods for information retrieval systems. It begins by outlining different types of evaluation, including retrieval effectiveness, efficiency, and user-based evaluation. It then focuses on retrieval effectiveness, describing commonly used measures like precision, recall, and discounted cumulative gain. It discusses how these measures are calculated and their limitations. The document also introduces other evaluation metrics like R-precision, average precision, and normalized discounted cumulative gain that provide single value assessments of system performance.
This document provides an introduction to text mining and information retrieval. It discusses how text mining is used to extract knowledge and patterns from unstructured text sources. The key steps of text mining include preprocessing text, applying techniques like summarization and classification, and analyzing the results. Text databases and information retrieval systems are described. Various models and techniques for text retrieval are outlined, including Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic models. Evaluation measures like precision and recall are also introduced.
Z39.50 is an international information retrieval standard that allows users to search and retrieve information from multiple remote databases through a single search interface. It simplifies searching by standardizing query formats and permitting communication between systems with different hardware and software. The document discusses the history and development of Z39.50, how it works using a client-server model, its features and limitations. Implementation of Z39.50 has helped revolutionize database searching for libraries and other information sectors.
The document discusses signature files, which are used for document retrieval. A signature file creates a compressed representation or "signature" for each document in a database. These signatures are stored in hash tables to allow easy retrieval of matching documents for user queries. Signatures can represent words using triplets of characters and a hash function, or entire documents through concatenation of word signatures or superimposed coding. Signature files provide a quick link between queries and documents but have lower accuracy than inverted files, which are generally better for information retrieval applications.
The document summarizes a technical seminar on web-based information retrieval systems. It discusses information retrieval architecture and approaches, including syntactical, statistical, and semantic methods. It also covers web search analysis techniques like web structure analysis, content analysis, and usage analysis. The document outlines the process of web crawling and types of crawlers. It discusses challenges of web structure, crawling and indexing, and searching. Finally, it concludes that as unstructured online information grows, information retrieval techniques must continue to improve to leverage this data.
This document provides an overview of an information retrieval system. It defines an information retrieval system as a system capable of storing, retrieving, and maintaining information such as text, images, audio, and video. The objectives of an information retrieval system are to minimize the overhead for a user to locate needed information. The document discusses functions like search, browse, indexing, cataloging, and various capabilities to facilitate querying and retrieving relevant information from the system.
Automatic indexing is the process of analyzing documents to extract information to be included in an index. This can be done through statistical, natural language, concept-based, or hypertext linkage techniques. Statistical techniques are the most common, identifying words and phrases to index documents. Natural language techniques perform additional parsing of text. Concept indexing correlates words to concepts, while hypertext linkages create connections between documents. The goal of automatic indexing is to preprocess documents to allow for relevant search results by representing concepts in the index.
The document discusses various aspects of term weighting which is important for text retrieval systems, including term frequency, document frequency, inverse document frequency, and how they are used to calculate TF-IDF weights for terms. It also covers stoplists, stemming, and the bag-of-words model which represents text as vectors of word occurrences without considering word order. Term weighting schemes play a major role in the similarity measures used by information retrieval systems to determine document relevance.
Information retrieval 20 divergence from randomnessVaibhav Khanna
Divergence from randomness, one of the very first models, is one type of probabilistic model. It is basically used to test the amount of information carried in the documents. It is based on Harter's 2-Poisson indexing-model. The 2-Poisson model has a hypothesis that the level of the documents is related to a set of documents which contains words occur relatively greater than the rest of the documents
Document ranking using qprp with concept of multi dimensional subspacePrakash Dubey
This presentation discusses a project titled "Document Ranking Using QPRP with Concept of Multi-Dimensional Subspace". It was presented by Prakash Kumar Dubey and guided by Mr. Sourish Dhar and Mr. Bhagaban Swain of the Department of IT. The presentation provides an overview of the project, including an introduction to information retrieval, classical IR models such as Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic models. It then discusses quantum probability and how it can be applied to document ranking. The presentation outlines the proposed solution, data collection and implementation, and concludes with future work.
Boolean,vector space retrieval Models Primya Tamil
The document discusses various information retrieval models including Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic models. It provides details on how documents and queries are represented and compared in the vector space model. Specifically, it explains that in this model, documents and queries are represented as vectors of term weights in a multi-dimensional space. The similarity between a document and query vector is calculated using measures like the inner product or cosine similarity to retrieve and rank documents.
1. The document defines key terms related to information retrieval systems such as information, retrieval, system, and discusses the basic components and functions of IRS.
2. It explains that the role of users is to formulate queries, and the role of librarians is to assist users in meeting their information needs.
3. The document contrasts older IRS that retrieved entire documents with modern IRS that allow storage, organization, and access to text and multimedia information through techniques like keyword searching and hyperlinks.
Indexing Techniques: Their Usage in Search Engines for Information RetrievalVikas Bhushan
1. The document discusses indexing techniques and their usage in modern search engines. It covers the transition from manual to automated indexing and different indexing methods.
2. Current trends in indexing and information retrieval are discussed such as XML indexing and its components. Future applications for indexers are also mentioned.
3. The conclusion emphasizes enhancements to indexing procedures like weighted indexing and linking of terms to improve retrieval of accurate information.
Information retrieval 13 alternative set theoretic modelsVaibhav Khanna
Alternative Set Theoretic Models
Fuzzy Set Model :a set theoretic model of document retrieval based on fuzzy theory.
Extended Boolean Model:a set theoretic model of document retrieval based on an extension of the classic Boolean model. The idea is to interpret partial matches as Euclidean distances represented in a vectorial space of index terms.
Vector space model or term vector model is an algebraic model for representing text documents as vectors of identifiers, such as, for example, index terms. It is used in information filtering, information retrieval, indexing and relevancy rankings. Its first use was in the SMART Information Retrieval System
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models. It begins with definitions of information retrieval and how it differs from data retrieval. It then discusses the retrieval process and logical representations of documents. A taxonomy of IR models is presented including classic, structured, and browsing models. Boolean, vector, and probabilistic models are explained as examples of classic models. The document concludes with descriptions of ad-hoc retrieval and filtering tasks and formal characteristics of IR models.
INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
This lecture will introduce the information retrieval problem, introduce the terminology related to IR, and provide a history of IR. In particular, the history of the web and its impact on IR will be discussed. Special attention and emphasis will be given to the concept of relevance in IR and the critical role it has played in the development of the subject. The lecture will end with a conceptual explanation of the IR process, and its relationships with other domains as well as current research developments.
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MODELS
This lecture will present the models that have been used to rank documents according to their estimated relevance to user given queries, where the most relevant documents are shown ahead to those less relevant. Many of these models form the basis for many of the ranking algorithms used in many of past and today’s search applications. The lecture will describe models of IR such as Boolean retrieval, vector space, probabilistic retrieval, language models, and logical models. Relevance feedback, a technique that either implicitly or explicitly modifies user queries in light of their interaction with retrieval results, will also be discussed, as this is particularly relevant to web search and personalization.
The document discusses the vector space model for representing text documents and queries in information retrieval systems. It describes how documents and queries are represented as vectors of term weights, with each term being assigned a weight based on its frequency in the document or query. The vector space model allows documents and queries to be compared by calculating the similarity between their vector representations. Terms that are more frequent in a document and less frequent overall are given higher weights through techniques like TF-IDF weighting. This vector representation enables efficient retrieval of documents ranked by similarity to the query.
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models, including vector space models, TF-IDF, Doc2Vec, and latent semantic analysis. It begins with basic concepts in information retrieval like document indexing and relevance scoring. Then it discusses vector space models and how documents and queries are represented as vectors. TF-IDF weighting is explained as assigning higher weight to rare terms. Doc2Vec is introduced as an extension of word2vec to learn document embeddings. Latent semantic analysis uses singular value decomposition to project documents to a latent semantic space. Implementation details and examples are provided for several models.
The document discusses different theories used in information retrieval systems. It describes cognitive or user-centered theories that model human information behavior and structural or system-centered theories like the vector space model. The vector space model represents documents and queries as vectors of term weights and compares similarities between queries and documents. It was first used in the SMART information retrieval system and involves assigning term vectors and weights to documents based on relevance.
The document discusses various information retrieval models, including:
1) Classic models like Boolean and vector space models that use index terms to represent documents and queries.
2) Probabilistic models that view IR as estimating the probability of relevance between documents and queries.
3) Structured models that incorporate document structure, including models based on non-overlapping text regions and hierarchical document structure.
4) Browsing models like flat, structure-guided, and hypertext models for navigating document collections.
The document discusses the World Wide Web and information retrieval on the web. It provides background on how the web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 using HTML, HTTP, and URLs. It then discusses some key differences in information retrieval on the web compared to traditional library systems, including the presence of hyperlinks, heterogeneous content, duplication of content, exponential growth in the number of documents, and lack of stability. It also summarizes some challenges in web search including the expanding nature of the web, dynamically generated content, influence of monetary contributions on search results, and search engine spamming.
This document discusses evaluation methods for information retrieval systems. It begins by outlining different types of evaluation, including retrieval effectiveness, efficiency, and user-based evaluation. It then focuses on retrieval effectiveness, describing commonly used measures like precision, recall, and discounted cumulative gain. It discusses how these measures are calculated and their limitations. The document also introduces other evaluation metrics like R-precision, average precision, and normalized discounted cumulative gain that provide single value assessments of system performance.
This document provides an introduction to text mining and information retrieval. It discusses how text mining is used to extract knowledge and patterns from unstructured text sources. The key steps of text mining include preprocessing text, applying techniques like summarization and classification, and analyzing the results. Text databases and information retrieval systems are described. Various models and techniques for text retrieval are outlined, including Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic models. Evaluation measures like precision and recall are also introduced.
Z39.50 is an international information retrieval standard that allows users to search and retrieve information from multiple remote databases through a single search interface. It simplifies searching by standardizing query formats and permitting communication between systems with different hardware and software. The document discusses the history and development of Z39.50, how it works using a client-server model, its features and limitations. Implementation of Z39.50 has helped revolutionize database searching for libraries and other information sectors.
The document discusses signature files, which are used for document retrieval. A signature file creates a compressed representation or "signature" for each document in a database. These signatures are stored in hash tables to allow easy retrieval of matching documents for user queries. Signatures can represent words using triplets of characters and a hash function, or entire documents through concatenation of word signatures or superimposed coding. Signature files provide a quick link between queries and documents but have lower accuracy than inverted files, which are generally better for information retrieval applications.
The document summarizes a technical seminar on web-based information retrieval systems. It discusses information retrieval architecture and approaches, including syntactical, statistical, and semantic methods. It also covers web search analysis techniques like web structure analysis, content analysis, and usage analysis. The document outlines the process of web crawling and types of crawlers. It discusses challenges of web structure, crawling and indexing, and searching. Finally, it concludes that as unstructured online information grows, information retrieval techniques must continue to improve to leverage this data.
This document provides an overview of an information retrieval system. It defines an information retrieval system as a system capable of storing, retrieving, and maintaining information such as text, images, audio, and video. The objectives of an information retrieval system are to minimize the overhead for a user to locate needed information. The document discusses functions like search, browse, indexing, cataloging, and various capabilities to facilitate querying and retrieving relevant information from the system.
Automatic indexing is the process of analyzing documents to extract information to be included in an index. This can be done through statistical, natural language, concept-based, or hypertext linkage techniques. Statistical techniques are the most common, identifying words and phrases to index documents. Natural language techniques perform additional parsing of text. Concept indexing correlates words to concepts, while hypertext linkages create connections between documents. The goal of automatic indexing is to preprocess documents to allow for relevant search results by representing concepts in the index.
The document discusses various aspects of term weighting which is important for text retrieval systems, including term frequency, document frequency, inverse document frequency, and how they are used to calculate TF-IDF weights for terms. It also covers stoplists, stemming, and the bag-of-words model which represents text as vectors of word occurrences without considering word order. Term weighting schemes play a major role in the similarity measures used by information retrieval systems to determine document relevance.
Information retrieval 20 divergence from randomnessVaibhav Khanna
Divergence from randomness, one of the very first models, is one type of probabilistic model. It is basically used to test the amount of information carried in the documents. It is based on Harter's 2-Poisson indexing-model. The 2-Poisson model has a hypothesis that the level of the documents is related to a set of documents which contains words occur relatively greater than the rest of the documents
Document ranking using qprp with concept of multi dimensional subspacePrakash Dubey
This presentation discusses a project titled "Document Ranking Using QPRP with Concept of Multi-Dimensional Subspace". It was presented by Prakash Kumar Dubey and guided by Mr. Sourish Dhar and Mr. Bhagaban Swain of the Department of IT. The presentation provides an overview of the project, including an introduction to information retrieval, classical IR models such as Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic models. It then discusses quantum probability and how it can be applied to document ranking. The presentation outlines the proposed solution, data collection and implementation, and concludes with future work.
This document discusses different information retrieval models including the Boolean model, vector space model, and probabilistic model. It focuses on describing the Boolean model and its drawbacks. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) weighting is explained as a way to assign weights to terms based on frequency and document distribution. Cosine similarity is presented as a common way to measure similarity between a document vector and query vector in the vector space model.
A Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Environmental databases using Hasse diagram technique-It is a multi-criteria evaluation method which can be used as a tool to rank objects and is hence also applicable to decision making.
The HDT reveals the best and the worst databases and conflicts among them, due to different information content.
The document discusses techniques for improving information retrieval through query reformulation, including relevance feedback and query expansion. It describes:
1) Relevance feedback involves revising the original query based on a user's judgements about retrieved documents, such as increasing weights of terms in relevant documents and decreasing weights in irrelevant documents.
2) Pseudo relevance feedback automatically assumes the top retrieved documents are relevant and uses them to expand the query, without explicit user feedback.
3) Query expansion techniques aim to retrieve additional relevant documents by adding new related terms to the original query, drawing terms either from the local set of initially retrieved documents, or globally from the entire document collection. Local analysis tends to give better results by avoiding ambiguity.
The document discusses techniques for improving query formulations in information retrieval systems, including relevance feedback and query expansion. It describes how relevance feedback works by reformulating the query based on terms from documents users mark as relevant or irrelevant. This can be done automatically through pseudo relevance feedback by assuming the top retrieved documents are relevant. The document also discusses problems that can arise with relevance feedback and potential solutions, such as presenting modified queries to users for review.
This document provides an overview of various information retrieval models and techniques used in search engines, including:
- Boolean, vector space, probabilistic models like BM25, and language models are described as older retrieval models.
- Learning to rank uses machine learning techniques to optimize ranking functions using features and training data.
- Relevance feedback, query likelihood models, and pseudo-relevance feedback are discussed as techniques for improving retrieval effectiveness by incorporating user feedback.
The document provides an introduction to probabilistic information retrieval and the binary independence model. It discusses how probabilities can be used to quantify uncertainties in information retrieval. The binary independence model uses probabilities to estimate the relevance of a document to a query based on term matching. It makes independence assumptions to estimate probabilities of terms appearing in relevant and non-relevant documents to calculate retrieval status values and rank documents.
The document describes a project to automate the marking of creative responses using machine learning algorithms. It involves classifying student responses into different creativity ranks. Several data analysts and academics are listed as being involved. The preprocessing and modeling pipeline includes lemmatization, word frequency analysis, topic modeling, and using classifiers like BERT, logistic regression, and naive bayes. Testing showed BERT achieved the highest accuracy of 75% for a 3-label classification task, making it suitable for the project's needs.
The science behind predictive analytics a text mining perspectiveankurpandeyinfo
This document summarizes techniques for predictive analytics using text mining and unstructured text data. It discusses representing text data using bag-of-words models and vector space models. Dimensionality reduction techniques like latent semantic analysis and topic models like latent Dirichlet allocation are described for extracting semantic information from text. Clustering methods like k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering are discussed for grouping similar documents. The document also covers classification techniques like rule-based classifiers, decision trees, and linear classifiers like logistic regression for assigning labels to documents.
11 - qualitative research data analysis ( Dr. Abdullah Al-Beraidi - Dr. Ibrah...Rasha
The document describes a dataset collected from students in a writing class. As an assignment, students were asked to describe in detail how they write, without consulting others. This generated a set of 10 individual narratives for analysis. Permission was obtained to use the anonymized data for teaching purposes. The total qualitative data available comprises 10 files, each containing a short student-authored narrative on the writing process.
Presentation of our full paper
"Improving Academic Plagiarism Detection for STEM Documents by Analyzing Mathematical Content and Citations"
at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2019 taking place at Urbana-Champaign, IL, US, June 3-5, 2019.
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This document provides an overview of probabilistic approaches to information retrieval. It discusses why probabilities are useful for IR given the inherent uncertainty. It covers the Probability Ranking Principle, which aims to rank documents by estimated probability of relevance. Other probabilistic techniques discussed include probabilistic indexing, probabilistic inference using logic representations, and using Bayesian networks for IR. The document notes open issues with some of these approaches and concludes by surveying existing survey papers on probabilistic IR.
This document provides lecture notes on information retrieval systems. It covers key concepts like precision and recall, different retrieval strategies including vector space model and probabilistic models, and retrieval utilities. The vector space model represents documents and queries as vectors in a shared space and calculates similarity using cosine similarity. Probabilistic models assign probabilities to terms and documents and estimate relevance probabilities. The notes discuss term weighting schemes, inverted indexes to improve efficiency, and integrating structured data with text retrieval. The overall objective is for students to learn fundamental models and techniques for information storage and retrieval.
Information retrival system and PageRank algorithmRupali Bhatnagar
We discuss the various models for Information retrieval system present in literature and discuss them mathematically. We also study the PageRank Algorithm which is used for relevant search.
Qualitative Studies in Software Engineering - Interviews, Observation, Ground...alessio_ferrari
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Lecture about qualitative data collection methods and qualitative data analysis in software engineering. Topics covered are:
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2. Interviews
3. Observation and Participant Observation
4. Archival Data Collection
5. Grounded theory, Coding, Thematic Analysis
6. Threats to validity in qualitative studies
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Distribution Similarity based Data Partition and Nearest Neighbor Search on U...Editor IJMTER
Databases are build with the fixed number of fields and records. Uncertain database contains a
different number of fields and records. Clustering techniques are used to group up the relevant records
based on the similarity values. The similarity measures are designed to estimate the relationship between
the transactions with fixed attributes. The uncertain data similarity is estimated using similarity
measures with some modifications.
Clustering on uncertain data is one of the essential tasks in mining uncertain data. The existing
methods extend traditional partitioning clustering methods like k-means and density-based clustering
methods like DBSCAN to uncertain data. Such methods cannot handle uncertain objects. Probability
distributions are essential characteristics of uncertain objects have not been considered in measuring
similarity between uncertain objects.
The customer purchase transaction data is analyzed using uncertain data clustering scheme. The
density based clustering mechanism is used for the uncertain data clustering process. This model
produces results with minimum accuracy levels. The clustering technique is improved with distribution
based similarity model for uncertain data. The nearest neighbor search technique is applied on the
distribution based data environment. The system is designed using java as a front end and oracle as a
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2. INTRODUCTION
• Probability theory has been used as a principal
means for modeling the retrieval process in
mathematical terms .
• In conventional retrieval situations a
document is retrieved whenever the keyword
set attached to the appears similar in some
sense to the query keywords.
• In this case the document is considered
relevant to the query.
3. Cont..
• Since the relevance of a document with
respect to a query is a matter of degree. It can
be postulated that when the document and
query vectors are sufficiently similar, the
corresponding probability of relevance is large
enough to make it reasonable to retrieve the
document in response query
• Applies the theory of probability
4. Why use Probabilities?
• Information Retrieval deals with uncertain
information
• Probability is a measure of uncertainty
• Probabilistic Ranking Principle
• provable
• minimization of risk
• Probabilistic Inference
• To justify your decision
5. Approach
• The basic underlying tenet of the probabilistic
approach to Retrieval is that, for optimal
performance documents should be ranked in
order of decreasing probability of relevance.
• Several models based on probabilistic
approaches have been advocated here we
shall briefly look into three such models.
6. objectives
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Highlight influential work on probabilistic models for IR
Provide a working understanding of the probabilistic
Techniques through a set of common implementation
tricks
Establish relationships between the popular
approaches: stress common ideas, explain differences
Outline issues in extending the models to interactive,
cross-language, multi-media
7. Maron and kuhns
• Maron and kuhns proposed a model for
probabilistic retrieval as early as in 1960. they
advocated that the probability that a given
document would be relevant to a user can be
assessed by a calculation of the probability, for
each document in the collection . That a user
submitting a particular query would judge that
document relevant Thus,
8. Cont..
• For a query consisting of only one term
(B), the probability that particular document
(DM) will be judged relevant is the ratio of
users who submit query term (B) and
consider the document (DM) to be relevant in
relation to the number of users who
submitted the query term (B) Adopting this
approach one has to employ historical
information to calculate the probability of
relevance the number times users.
9. Cont..
• Who submitted a particular query term (B)
judged a document (Dm) relevant compared
with the total number of users who submitted
that particular query term (B)
10. Salton approach
• The model suggested by salton and mcgill
takes a different approach. The essence of
this model is that if estimates for the
probability of occurrence of various terms in
relevant document can be calculated, then the
probabilities that a document will be retrieved
given that it is relevant, several experiments
have shown that the probabilistic model can
yield good results.
11. Two basic parameters
• The probability of relevance –pr(rel)
• The probability of non-relevance-pr(non-rel)
if relevance is considered as a binary property
then pr(non-rel)= 1 pr(rel)
However, there are two cost parameters
associated with the process of retrieval
A1- the loss associated with the retrieval of a
non-relevant record
12. Cont…
• A2 the loss associated with the non- retrieval
of a relevant record
• Because of the fact that retrieval of anonrelevant record carries a loss of a1 {1p(rel)}, and the rejection of a relevant item
has an associated loss factor of a2pr(rel), the
total loss for a given retrieval process will be
minimized if an item is retrieved whenever
A2pr(rel)>a1pr(rel)
13. Cont…
• Detined, and an item may be retrieved whenever the
value of g and DISC is greater than or equals
zero, where
• g or DISC = P(rel) a1
1-Pr(rel)
a2
• The relevance properties of a record mist be related to
the relevance properties of various terms attached to
the records. The probabilities that a document is
relevant and not relevant, given that is has been
selected, are defined by P (rel selected) and P (non-rel
selected) respectively.
14. Historical Background
The first attempts to develop a probabilistic theory of
retrieval were made over 30 years ago [Moron and
Kuhn's 1960; Miller 1971], and since then there has
been a steady development of the approach. There
are already several operational IR systems based upon
probabilistic or semi probabilistic models.
One major obstacle in probabilistic or
semiprobabilistic IR models is finding methods for
estimating the probabilities used to evaluate the
probability of relevance that are both theoretically
sound and computationally efficient.
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