Mathematical foundations of information retrieval.

Abstract

The book under review presents a unified, mathemathical description of information retrieval(IR)models. It concerns a personal view of the author, partly based on his Ph.D. work Dominich(1993) and later research of the author. As such it does not interact very much with similar efforts of other researchers but, nevertheless, the presented mathematical model is interesting and shows the relation between the different existing IR models. To give the reader of this review an idea of what it is all about we give a (simplified) description of the model from which, for example, vector IR(also called similarity IR) and probabilistic IR can be derived. Dominich's model is called "Classical Information Retrieval".