Active learning to maximize accuracy vs. effort in interactive information retrieval

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 145-154

  Tian, Aibo ^a   Lease, Matthew ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Personalized search; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

ACTIVE LEARNING; ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES; DOCUMENT RANKING; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE PROCESS; PERSONALIZED SEARCH; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 80052110979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2009939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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