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Interactive Retrieval Based on Wikipedia Concepts

Information Retrieval 2014-12-30 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a new user feedback mechanism based on Wikipedia concepts for interactive retrieval. In this mechanism, the system presents to the user a group of Wikipedia concepts, and the user can choose those relevant to refine his/her query. To realize this mechanism, we propose methods to address two problems: 1) how to select a small number of possibly relevant Wikipedia concepts to show the user, and 2) how to re-rank retrieved documents given the user-identified Wikipedia concepts. Our methods are evaluated on three TREC data sets. The experiment results show that our methods can dramatically improve retrieval performances.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8281,
  title  = {Interactive Retrieval Based on Wikipedia Concepts},
  author = {Lanbo Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8281},
  year   = {2014}
}
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