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JCDL
2006
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Using controlled query generation to evaluate blind relevance feedback algorithms
Currently in document retrieval there are many algorithms each with different strengths and weakness. There is some difficulty, however, in evaluating the impact of the test quer...
Chris Jordan, Carolyn R. Watters, Qigang Gao
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Goal generation with relevant and trusted beliefs
A rational agent adopts (or changes) its goals when new information (beliefs) becomes available or its desires (e.g., tasks it is supposed to carry out) change. In conventional ap...
Célia da Costa Pereira, Andrea Tettamanzi
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Explicit relevance models in intent-oriented information retrieval diversification
The intent-oriented search diversification methods developed in the field so far tend to build on generative views of the retrieval system to be diversified. Core algorithm compon...
Saul Vargas, Pablo Castells, David Vallet
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Approximating true relevance distribution from a mixture model based on irrelevance data
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF), which has been widely applied in IR, aims to derive a distribution from the top n pseudo relevant documents D. However, these documents are often ...
Peng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song