Topical Diversity and Relevance Feedback

Abstract

We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's Intelligent Systems Lab in the relevance feedback track at TREC 2009. Our main conclusion for the relevance feedback track is that a topical diversity approach provides good feedback documents. Further, we find that our relevance feedback algorithm seems to help most when there are sufficient relevant documents available.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA517688

Entities

People

  • Edgar Meij
  • Jiyin He
  • Maarten De Rijke
  • Wouter Weerkamp

Organizations

  • University of Amsterdam

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Base Lines
  • Clustering
  • Education
  • Feedback
  • Information Operations
  • Information Retrieval
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Language
  • Scientific Research
  • Silhouettes
  • Standards
  • Universities

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Robotics and Automation.