@inproceedings{cooper94probability, title = {The formalism of probability theory in {IR}: a foundation or an encumbrance?}, author = {William S. Cooper}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, editor = {W. Bruce Croft and C. J. {van Rijsbergen}}, pages = {242-247}, publisher = {Springer}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=188562}, year = {1994}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20f570ccd4e73c5003da07853f9d0683d/msn}, crossref_ = {sigir94}, language = {english}, keywords = {cites.gradu research.ir science.statistics } }