A study of methods for negative relevance feedback

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 219-226

  Wang, Xuanhui ^a   Fang, Hui ^b   Zhai, ChengXiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficult topics; Language models; Negative feedback; Vector space models

Indexed keywords

DIFFICULT TOPICS; LANGUAGE MODELS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACKS; POSITIVE EXAMPLES; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES; RELEVANCE FEEDBACKS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SEARCH RESULTS; SPACE MODELS; SYSTEMATIC STUDIES; TEST COLLECTIONS; TEST SETS; TREC COLLECTIONS; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEEDBACK; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TESTING; TURBULENT FLOW; VECTORS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 57349131021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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