The effects of relevance feedback quality and quantity in interactive relevance feedback: A simulation based on user modeling

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3936 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 191-204

  Keskustalo, Heikki ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a   Pirkola, Ari ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FEEDBACK EFFORT; PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RAPID TESTING; SIMULATED RELEVANCE FEEDBACK;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 33745811203     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11735106_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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