Brief Communication: An Historical Note on the Origins of Probabilistic Indexing

Authors:
M. E. Maron
Affiliations:
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Venue:
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Year:
2008

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Abstract

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 - viewing it as problem of inference and prediction, and introducing probabilistically weighted indexes and probabilistically ranked output. These ideas were first formulated and written up in August 1958.