Robert Losee has been a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills School of Information and Library Science since 1986, after receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught courses in Information Retrieval, including an introductory graduate course, and an advanced Artificial Intelligence for Information Retrieval course. He has also taught courses in Information Theory, including a doctoral seminar in the area. His most recent monograph is Information from Processes: About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation (Springer, 2012).

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Information Retrieval: A Predictive Science.- Probabilities and Probabilistic Information Retrieval.- Information Retrieval Performance Measures.- Single-Term Performance.- Performance with Multiple Binary Features.- Applications: Metadata and Linguistic Labels.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography .

Robert Losee has been a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills School of Information and Library Science since 1986, after receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught courses in Information Retrieval, including an introductory graduate course, and an advanced Artificial Intelligence for Information Retrieval course. He has also taught courses in Information Theory, including a doctoral seminar in the area. His most recent monograph is Information from Processes: About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation (Springer, 2012).

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Information Retrieval: A Predictive Science.- Probabilities and Probabilistic Information Retrieval.- Information Retrieval Performance Measures.- Single-Term Performance.- Performance with Multiple Binary Features.- Applications: Metadata and Linguistic Labels.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography .

Robert Losee has been a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills School of Information and Library Science since 1986, after receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught courses in Information Retrieval, including an introductory graduate course, and an advanced Artificial Intelligence for Information Retrieval course. He has also taught courses in Information Theory, including a doctoral seminar in the area. His most recent monograph is Information from Processes: About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation (Springer, 2012).

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Information Retrieval: A Predictive Science.- Probabilities and Probabilistic Information Retrieval.- Information Retrieval Performance Measures.- Single-Term Performance.- Performance with Multiple Binary Features.- Applications: Metadata and Linguistic Labels.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography .