¬An introduction to information retrieval (o.J.)
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- Abstract
- In the beginning IR was dominated by Boolean retrieval, described in the next section. This could be called the antediluvian period, or generation zero. The first generation of IR research dates from the early sixties, and was dominated by model building, experimentation, and heuristics. The big names were Gerry Salton and Karen Sparck Jones. The second period, which began in the mid-seventies, saw a big shift towards mathematics, and a rise of the IR model based upon probability theory - probabilistic IR. The big name here was, and continues to be, Stephen Robertson. More recently Keith van Rijsbergen has led a group that has developed underlying logical models of IR, but interesting as this new work is, it has not as yet led to results that offer improvements for the IR system builder. Xapian is firmly placed as a system that implements, or tries to implement, the probabilistic IR model. (We say 'tries' because sometimes implementation efficiency and theoretical complexity demand certain short-cuts.)
