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On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents

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On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents
Abstract. Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) assumes that the topranking n documents of the initial retrieval are relevant and extracts expansion terms from them. In this work, we introduce the notion of pseudo-irrelevant documents, i.e. high-scoring documents outside of top n that are highly unlikely to be relevant. We show how pseudo-irrelevant documents can be used to extract better expansion terms from the topranking n documents: good expansion terms are those which discriminate the top-ranking n documents from the pseudo-irrelevant documents. Our approach gives substantial improvements in retrieval performance over Model-based Feedback on several test collections. Key words: Information Retrieval, Pseudo-Relevance Feedback, Query Expansion, Pseudo-Irrelevance, Linear Classifier
Karthik Raman, Raghavendra Udupa, Pushpak Bhattach
Added 29 Oct 2010
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ECIR
Authors Karthik Raman, Raghavendra Udupa, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Abhijit Bhole
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