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RIAO
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using Document and Aggregate-level Information
The combination of evidence for Information Retrieval has been studied extensively in order to increase effectiveness. In this paper, we study the selective application of differe...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, Fidel Cacheda
IR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
A decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence in topic distillation
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
Vassilis Plachouras, Fidel Cacheda, Iadh Ounis
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
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Relevance Propagation for Topic Distillation UIUC TREC 2003 Web Track Experiments
In this paper, we report our experiments on the Web Track TREC-2003. We submitted five runs for the topic distillation task. Our goal was to evaluate the standard language modeli...
Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation
In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis