Adaptive relevance feedback in information retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 255-264

  Lv, Yuanhua ^a   Zhai, ChengXiang ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive relevance feedback; Language models; Learning; Prediction; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

CURRENT FEEDBACK; FEED BACK INFORMATION; FEEDBACK DOCUMENTS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LEARNING APPROACH; OPTIMAL BALANCE; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK METHOD; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; ROAD-MAPS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 74549194581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1645988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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