Notes from 2/21, plans for 2/26

Spent a LOT of time last Wednesday talking about writing project topics. Here are some more:

• There are other packages besides Lucene, e.g. Lemur, and Clairlib, and maybe others. A comparison of those packages would be a good topic.
• The connection between IR and other areas, such as machine learning or NLP, can be explored.

For Monday evening 2/26, I'll talk about the Salton and Buckley paper, and introduce the concept of probabilistic IR.