Retrieval Models

Information in video form

Watch these to prepare yourselves for the session

A description of one model

And a description of another model

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Information in article form

Read these to prepare yourselves for the session

Croft, W. Bruce, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman.
Retrieval Models, 233-241,
and
Architecture of a Search Engine, 13-29,
in Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2010.

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Things to think about

  • What models do I use on a daily basis?
  • What with Google and all its variants, do I really need to know how to anything about information retrieval models?

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