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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
JIIS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Using Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence to Combine Aspects of Information Use
In this paper we propose a model for relevance feedback. Our model combines evidence from user's relevance assessments with algorithms describing how words are used within do...
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas
TREC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Novel Approaches in Text Information Retrieval - Experiments in the Web Track of TREC 2004
: In this paper, we report our experiments in the mixed query task of the Web track for TREC 2004. We deal with the problem of ranking Web documents within a multicriteria framewor...
Mohamed Farah, Daniel Vanderpooten
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A probabilistic relevance propagation model for hypertext retrieval
A major challenge in developing models for hypertext retrieval is to effectively combine content information with the link structure available in hypertext collections. Although s...
Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang Zhai