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Using Query Profiles for Clarification

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006)

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The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so-called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification.

Query profiles provide useful summarized previews on the retrieved answers to a given query. They outline ambiguity in the query and when combined with appropriate means of interactivity allow the user to easily adapt the final ranking. Statistical analysis of the profiles even enables the retrieval system to automatically suggest search restrictions or preferences. The paper shows a preliminary experimental study of the proposed feedback methods within the setting of TREC’s interactive HARD track.

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  1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Henning Rode & Djoerd Hiemstra

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  1. Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  2. Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, EC1V OHB, London, UK

    Andy MacFarlane

  3. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Stefan Rüger

  4. Queen Mary University of London, UK

    Anastasios Tombros

  5. CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Theodora Tsikrika

  6. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Alexei Yavlinsky

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Rode, H., Hiemstra, D. (2006). Using Query Profiles for Clarification. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_19

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