Stephen Robertson (computer scientist)

Stephen Robertson
Born (1946-04-06) 6 April 1946 (age 78)
NationalityBritish
Alma materCambridge, City University, University College London
Known forWork on information retrieval and inverse document frequency
AwardsGerard Salton Award (2000), Tony Kent Strix award (1998), ACM Fellow (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Doctoral advisorB.C (Bertie) Brookes
Websitestaff.city.ac.uk/~sbrp622

Stephen Robertson is a British computer scientist. He is known for his work on probabilistic information retrieval together with Karen Spärck Jones[1] and the Okapi BM25 weighting model.[2][3]

  1. ^ Robertson, S. E.; Spärck Jones, K. (1976). "Relevance weighting of search terms". Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 27 (3): 129. doi:10.1002/asi.4630270302.
  2. ^ Spärck Jones, K.; Walker, S.; Robertson, S. E. (2000). "A probabilistic model of information retrieval: Development and comparative experiments: Part 1". Information Processing & Management. 36 (6): 779–808. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.134.6108. doi:10.1016/S0306-4573(00)00015-7. S2CID 1965284.
  3. ^ Spärck Jones, K.; Walker, S.; Robertson, S. E. (2000). "A probabilistic model of information retrieval: Development and comparative experiments: Part 2". Information Processing & Management. 36 (6): 809–840. doi:10.1016/S0306-4573(00)00016-9.