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Incorporating user search behaviour into relevance feedback [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper we present five user experiments on incorporating behavioural information into the relevance feedback process. In particular we concentrate on ranking terms for query expansion and selecting new terms to add to the user's query.
van Rijsbergen, C.J. +6 more
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A survey on the use of relevance feedback for information access systems [PDF]
, 2003 Users of online search engines often find it difficult to express their need for information in the form of a query. However, if the user can identify examples of the kind of documents they require then they can employ a technique known as relevance ...
Ruthven, Ian, Lalmas, Mounia
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Patent query reduction using pseudo relevance feedback [PDF]
, 2011 Queries in patent prior art search, being full patent applications, are very much longer than standard ad hoc search and web search topics. Standard information retrieval (IR) techniques are not entirely effective for patent prior art search because of ...
Magdy, Walid +7 more
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Query expansion for language modeling using sentence similarities [PDF]
, 2011 We propose a novel method of query expansion for Language Modeling (LM) in Information Retrieval (IR) based on the similarity of the query with sentences in the top ranked documents from an initial retrieval run.
Ganguly, Debasis +5 more
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Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on wikipedia [PDF]
, 2009 Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from an initial search are assumed to be relevant and used for PRF.
Xu, Yang +5 more
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Retrieval through explanation : an abductive inference approach to relevance feedback [PDF]
, 1999 Relevance feedback techniques are designed to automatically improve a system's representation of a query by using documents the user has marked as relevant.
van Rijsbergen, C.J. +2 more
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A user profiles acquiring approach using pseudo-relevance feedback [PDF]
, 2009 User profiles are important in personalized Web information gathering and recommendation systems. The current user profiles acquiring techniques however suffer from some problems and thus demand to improve.
Yuefeng Li +4 more
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The use of implicit evidence for relevance feedback in web retrieval [PDF]
, 2002 In this paper we report on the application of two contrasting types of relevance feedback for web retrieval. We compare two systems; one using explicit relevance feedback (where searchers explicitly have to mark documents relevant) and one using implicit
Ruthven, Ian +2 more
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Selective relevance feedback using term characteristics [PDF]
, 1999 This paper presents a new relevance feedback technique; selectively combining evidence based on the usage of terms within documents. By considering how terms are used within documents, we can better describe the features that might make a document ...
Ruthven, Ian, Lalmas, Mounia
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Exploring accumulative query expansion for relevance feedback [PDF]
, 2010 For the participation of Dublin City University (DCU) in the Relevance Feedback (RF) track of INEX 2010, we investigated the relation between the length of relevant text passages and the number of RF terms.
Ganguly, Debasis +5 more
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