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TREC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Study of Adaptive Relevance Feedback - UIUC TREC 2008 Relevance Feedback Experiments
In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2008 Relevance Feedback Track. Our main goal is to study a novel problem in feedback, i.e., optimization of the balance of the...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Positional relevance model for pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Model-based Feedback in the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Regularized estimation of mixture models for robust pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy in all retrieval models. However the performance of existing pseudo feedback meth...
Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai