The effect of accessing nonmatching documents on relevance feedback

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-153

  Dunlop, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Free text information retrieval; H.3.3 Information Storage and Retrieval : Information Search and Retrieval search process; Hypertext; Negative feedback; Probabilistic model; Relevance feedback; Theory; Vector space model

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; VECTORS;

FREE TEXT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031121625     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/248625.248650     Document Type: Article

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