Stephen Robertson

Name: Stephen Robertson

Born: Unknown

Computer-related contributions

• British computer scientist who is known for work on information retrieval and inverse document frequency.
• Research interests are in theories and models for information retrieval (specifically probabilistic models) and the design and evaluation of IR systems.
• Much of his work has contributed to the Microsoft search engine Bing.

Significant publications

• Introduction to special issue on the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval (2011).
• Modeling score distributions in information retrieval (2011).
• On the choice of effectiveness measures for learning to rank (2010).
• On the history of evaluation in IR (2008).