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\chapter*{\centerline{GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS}}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\aleph$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Aleph}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\chi^2$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Chi Square}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\dagger$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Dagger}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\gamma$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Gamma}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\lambda$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Lambda}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\mu$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Mu}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\omega$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Omega}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\rho$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Rho}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{$\sigma$}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Sigma}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{AQE}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Automatic Query Expansion}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{BM}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Best Match}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{CDF}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Cumulative Distribution Function}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{CE}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Collection Enrichment}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{DFI}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Divergence from Indepence}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{DFR}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Divergence from Randomness}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{ECIR}
\parbox[t]{5in}{European Conference on Information Retrieval}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{ERR}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Expected Reciprocal Rank}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{GOF}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Goodness of Fit}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{HTML}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Hyper Text Markup Language}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{ICTF}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Inverse Collection Term Frequency}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{IDF}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Inverse Document Frequency}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{IR}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Information Retrieval}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{\emph{k}-NN}
\parbox[t]{5in}{\emph{k}-Nearest Neighbors}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{LETOR}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Learning to Rank}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{MAP}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Mean Average Precision}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{MLE}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Maximum Likelihood Estimate}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{MDS}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Multidimensional Scaling}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{MQ}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Million Query}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{MS}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Model Selection}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{NIST}
\parbox[t]{5in}{National Institute of Standards and Technology}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{NDCG}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{PDF}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Probability Density Function}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{PMF}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Probability Mass Function}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{PRP}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Probability Ranking Principle}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{RIA}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Reliable Information Access}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{SE}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Standard Error}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{SIGIR}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{SIR}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Selective Information Retrieval}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{STW}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Selective Term Weighting}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{QPP}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Query Performance Prediction}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{TREC}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Text REtrieval Conference}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{URL}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Uniform Resource Locator}

\noindent \parbox[t]{1.5in}{WT}
\parbox[t]{5in}{Web Track}