For my internship @ MS, I am working on SP Search. Here’s a collection of interesting documents that are freely available and relevant to Information Retrieval. My plan is to TL;DR each of these since that will ensure that my understanding is tested as well. I found these papers immensely accessible. They are good for an overall evolution of my computer science knowledge (which is quite limited)
- Understanding IDF : http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ser/idfpapers/Robertson_idf_JDoc.pdf
- BM 25 : http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ser/papers/RSJ76.pdf
- BM 25 F : http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec13/papers/microsoft-cambridge.web.hard.pdf
This is I believe a good intro. A TL;DR is obviously needed and I’ll see if I can put one up sometime soon.