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The effects of adding information from relevant documents are examined in the TREC routing environment. A modified Rocchio relevance feedback approach is used, with a varying number of relevant documents retrieved by an initial SMART search, and a varying number of terms from those relevant documents used to expand the initial query. Recall-precision evaluation reveals that as the amount of expansion of the query due to adding terms from relevant documents increases, so does the effectiveness. There appears to be a linear relationship between the log of the number of terms added and the recall-precision effectiveness. There also appears to be a linear relationship between the log of the number of known relevant documents and the recall-precision effectiveness.
This study was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under garant IRI 93-0124.
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Buckley, C., Salton, G., Allan, J. (1994). The Effect of Adding Relevance Information in a Relevance Feedback Environment. In: Croft, B.W., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (eds) SIGIR ’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2099-5_30
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