Robert Losee --- Performance Measurement for Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries, often addressing natural language processing

A recent (May 2010) excellent doctoral dissertation was written by Lewis Church here at UNC-CH, Combinatoric Models of Information Retrieval Ranking Methods and Performance Measures for Weakly-Ordered Document Collections, addresses analytic models of retrieval.

List of recent publications on Retrieval Performance Measures by Robert Losee

Percent Perfect Performance (PPP), Information Processing & Management. 43(4), 2007, 1020-1029.
"Is 1 Noun Worth 2 Adjectives? Measuring the Relative Feature Utility", Information Processing & Management. 42 (5) 2006, 1248-1259.
"Are 2 Document Clusters Better Than 1? The Cluster Performance Question for Information Retrieval," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56 (1) 2005, 106-108. (pdf of full article). (Losee and Church)
"When Information Retrieval Measures Agree about the Relative Quality of Document Rankings," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (9), pp. 834-840, 2000. (pdf of full article.) (Won JASIS Best Paper of the Year Award, 2000.)
Text Retrieval and Filtering: Analytic Models of Performance, Boston: Kluwer, 1998.
For earlier and other works, see my home page