The impact of positive, negative and topical relevance feedback

Rianne Kaptein; Jaap Kamps; Djoerd Hiemstra

The impact of positive, negative and topical relevance feedback

Rianne Kaptein, Jaap Kamps, Djoerd Hiemstra

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Abstract

This document contains a description of experiments for the 2008 Relevance Feedback track. We experiment with different amounts of feedback, including negative relevance feedback. Feedback is implemented using massive weighted query expansion. Parsimonious query expansion using only relevant documents and Jelinek-Mercer smoothing performs best on this relevance feedback track dataset. Additional blind feedback gives better results, except when the blind feedback set is of the same size as the explicit feedback set. On a small number of topics topical feedback is applied, which turns out to be mainly beneficial for early precision.

Original language	Undefined
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - Nov 2008
Event	Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC-17 2008 - Gaithersburg, United States Duration: 18 Nov 2008 → 21 Nov 2008 Conference number: 17

Conference

Conference	Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC-17 2008
Abbreviated title	TREC
Country/Territory	United States
City	Gaithersburg
Period	18/11/08 → 21/11/08

Keywords

EWI-23223
IR-85286

Access to Document

http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec17/papers/uamsterdam-kapms.rf.rev.pdf

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