Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval

In this poster,we incorporate user query history, as context information, to improve the retrieval performance in interactive retrieval. Experiments using the TREC data show that incorporating such context information indeed consistently improves the retrieval performance in both average precision and precision at 20 documents. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Retrieval models General Terms Algorithms Keywords Query history, query expansion, interactive retrieval, context

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
• Keywords: Interactive Retrieval, Query History, Retrieval Performance, SIGIR 2003