An Historical Note on the Origins of Probabilistic Indexing

The motivation behind ``Probabilistic Indexing'' was to replace two-valued thinking about information retrieval with probabilistic notions. This involved a new view of the information retrieval problem

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: IPM
• Authors: M. E. Maron
• Keywords: Information Retrieval, Information Retrieval Problem, IPM 2006, IPM 2008, Probabilistic Indexing