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Some inconsistencies and misnomers in probabilistic information retrieval

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SIGIR '91: Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/122860.122866

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Some inconsistencies and misnomers in probabilistic information retrieval
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval models and ranking
2. Theory of computation
  1. Models of computation
    1. Probabilistic computation

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DOI:10.1145/122860

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