Document (#33945)

Author

Robertson, S.

Title

¬The state of information retrieval : a researcher's view

Source

http://www.iskouk.org/presentations/robertson.pdf

Abstract

For the last ten years Stephen Robertson has been a researcher at the Microsoft Research Laboratory. He previously spent twenty years at City University, where he started the Centre for Interactive Systems Research and still retains a part-time professorship. His work on probabilistic theory underpins the algorithms behind every serious search engine today. In his talk, he gave a non-technical overview of some current concerns of core IR research, in particular on the use of different kinds of evidence in searching and ranking.

Content

Presentation at ISKO meeting on June 26, 2008 at University College, London.

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