Retrieval through explanation : an abductive inference approach to relevance feedback
Ruthven, I. and Lalmas, M. and van Rijsbergen, C.J. (1999) Retrieval through explanation : an abductive inference approach to relevance feedback. In: 10th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 1999-09-01 - 1999-09-03.
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Abstract
Relevance feedback techniques are designed to automatically improve a system's representation of a query by using documents the user has marked as relevant. However, traditional relevance feedback models suffer from a number of limitations that restrict their potential in supporting information seeking. One of the major limitations of relevance feedback is that it does not incorporate behavioural aspects of information seeking - how and why users assess relevance. We propose that relevance feedback should be viewed as a process of explanation and demonstrate how this limitation of relevance feedback techniques can be overcome by a theory of relevance feedback based on abductive inference.
| Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| ID code: | 2472 |
| Keywords: | information retrieval, abductive inference, relevance feedback, Electronic computers. Computer science, Computer Science(all) |
| Subjects: | Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences |
| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date deposited: | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Last modified: | 23 Sep 2017 17:32 |
| URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/2472 |
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