1. How to Pick Up Women…

2. Using IR Strategies By Mike Wooldridge May 9, 2006

5. User with “information” need

6. Collection of “documents”

7. Objective: Formulate a query that returns relevant documents

8. Too Few Results “Anyone want to see the waterbed in my van?”

9. Too Many Results “I’m Brad Pitt.”

10. Controlled Vocabulary

11. Relevance Feedback “Anyone want to see the waterbed in my van?”

12. Revised Query “Anyone want to see the swimming pool at my mansion?”

13. Term Weighting “Anyone want to see the 3 swimming pools at my 9-bedroom mansion?”

14. Cross-Language Retrieval “Can I buy you a drink?”

15. Cross-Language Retrieval “¿Puedo le compro una bebida?”

16. Precision vs. Recall vs. Blood-Alcohol Content

18. Thanks, Ray!