Thursday, February 20, 2014

IS2140_Reading notes_Unit 7


IIR chapter 9

1.relevance feedback (RF) is to involve the user in the retrieval process so as to improve the final result set.

 

The basic procedure is:

• The user issues a (short, simple) query.

• The system returns an initial set of retrieval results.

• The user marks some returned documents as relevant or non-relevant.

• The system computes a better representation of the information need based on the user feedback.

• The system displays a revised set of retrieval results.

 

2.The Rocchio Algorithm

3.Cases where relevance feedback alone is not sufficient include:

Misspellings.

Cross-language information retrieval.

Mismatch of searcher’s vocabulary versus collection vocabulary.

 

4.Pseudo relevance feedback, also known as blind relevance feedback, provides a method for automatic local analysis. It automates the manual part of relevance feedback, so that the user gets improved retrieval performance without an extended interaction. The method is to do normal retrieval to find an initial set of most relevant documents, to then assume that the top k ranked documents are relevant, and finally to do relevance feedback as before under this assumption.

 

5.Implicit feedback

while users are often reluctant to provide explicit feedback, it is easy to collect implicit feedback in large quantities for a high volume system, such as a web search engine

 

6.three global methods for expanding a query:

 (1)by simply aiding the user in doing so,

 (2) by using a manual thesaurus,

 (3)through building a thesaurus automatically.

 

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