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Cummins 1  \nNatural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) Group  \n[ronan.cummins@cl.cam.ac.uk](ronan.cummins@cl.cam.ac.uk)  \n1Adapted from Simone Teufel’s original slides  \n137  \nIR System Components  \nFinished with indexing, query normalisation  \n139  \n1 Recap  \n 2 Why ranked retrieval?  \n 3 Term frequency  \n 4 Zipf’s Law and tf-idf weighting  \n 5 The vector space model  \n141  \n1 Recap  \n 2 Why ranked retrieval?  \n 3 Term frequency  \n 4 Zipf’s Law and tf-idf weighting  \n 5 The vector space model  \nWhat to do when there is no exact match between query term and document term?  \n Dictionary as hash, B-tree, trie  \n Wildcards via permuterm  \n and k-gram index  \n k-gram index and edit-distance for spelling correction  \n142  \nRanking search results: why it is important (as opposed to just presenting a set of unordered Boolean results)  \n Term frequency: This is a key ingredient for ranking.  \n Tf-idf ranking: best known traditional ranking scheme  \n And one 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