Empirical investigations on query modification using abductive explanations

I. Ruthven; M. Lalmas; C.J. van Rijsbergen

Empirical investigations on query modification using abductive explanations

I. Ruthven, M. Lalmas, C.J. van Rijsbergen

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Abstract

In this paper we report on a series of experiments designed to investigate query modification techniques motivated by the area of abductive reasoning. In particular we use the notion of abductive explanation, explanations being a description of data that highlight important features of the data. We describe several methods of creating abductive explanations, exploring term reweighting and query reformulation techniques and demonstrate their suitability for relevance feedback.

Original language	English
Pages	181-189
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - Sept 2001
Event	24th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2001) - New Orleans, United States Duration: 9 Sept 2001 → 13 Sept 2001

Conference

Conference	24th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2001)
Abbreviated title	SIGIR 2001
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	9/09/01 → 13/09/01

Keywords

abductive reasoning
abductive explanations
query formulation
information retrieval

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Empirical investigations on query modification using abductive explanations

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