Probabilistic information retrieval as a combination of abstraction, inductive learning, and probabilistic assumptions

  • Authors:
  • Norbert Fuhr;Ulrich Pfeifer

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany;Univ. of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We show that former approaches in probabilistic information retrieval are based on one or two of the three concepts abstraction, inductive learning, and probabilistic assumptions, and we propose a new approach which combines all three concepts. This approach is illustrated for the case of indexing with a controlled vocabulary. For this purpose, we describe a new probabilistic model first, which is then combined with logistic regression, thus yielding a generalization of the original model. Experimental results for the pure theoretical model as well as for heuristic variants are given. Furthermore, linear and logistic regression are compared.