The Formalism of Probability Theory in IR: A Foundation for An Encumbrance?
William S. CooperPublished in: SIGIR (1994)
Keyphrases
- probability theory
- information retrieval
- reasoning under uncertainty
- conditional independence
- possibility theory
- probabilistic logic
- subjective probabilities
- plausible reasoning
- belief functions
- uncertainty management
- decision theory
- inference rules
- fuzzy sets
- probabilistic interpretation
- argumentation systems
- belief change
- evaluation measures
- random variables
- computational intelligence
- dempster shafer
- training data
- decision making
- neural network