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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
JIIS
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Using Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence to Combine Aspects of Information Use
In this paper we propose a model for relevance feedback. Our model combines evidence from user's relevance assessments with algorithms describing how words are used within do...
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Novel Approaches in Text Information Retrieval - Experiments in the Web Track of TREC 2004
: In this paper, we report our experiments in the mixed query task of the Web track for TREC 2004. We deal with the problem of ranking Web documents within a multicriteria framewor...
Mohamed Farah, Daniel Vanderpooten
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A probabilistic relevance propagation model for hypertext retrieval
A major challenge in developing models for hypertext retrieval is to effectively combine content information with the link structure available in hypertext collections. Although s...
Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang Zhai