IR (Information Retrieval)

Research and Project

My research advisor was James French, who headed the Information Retrieval (IR) group. We analyzed and developed strategies for indexing and searching large sets of data, primarily academic publications.

The following pages provide links to the files used in my Master's project, as well as links and descriptions for the source code and data files used in my research.

project

My Master's project, entitled "Cue-Validity Variance Database Selection Algorithm Evaluation and Enhancement".

agents

Info about intelligent agents.

trec

My TREC software for calculating merits, ranks, comparisons, plotting, etc.

jaccard

PERL scripts for generating jaccard matrices.

viles

Comparisons between our data and that of Charlie Viles.

misc

Miscellaneous files.