Finding relevant documents using top-ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative techniques

R.W. White; I. Ruthven; J.M. Jose

doi:10.1145/564376.564389

Finding relevant documents using top-ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative techniques

R.W. White, I. Ruthven, J.M. Jose

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In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are examined: the presentation of sentences that highly match the searcher's query and the use of implicit evidence. Implicit evidence is evidence captured from the searcher's interaction with the retrieval results and is used to automatically update the display. Our evaluation concentrates on the effectiveness and subject perception of these techniques. The results show, with statistical significance, that the techniques are effective and efficient for information seeking.

Original language	English
Pages	57-64
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/564376.564389
Publication status	Published - Aug 2002
Event	Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information (SIGIR 2002) - Tampere, Findland Duration: 11 Aug 2002 → 15 Aug 2002

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Conference	Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information (SIGIR 2002)
City	Tampere, Findland
Period	11/08/02 → 15/08/02

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sentence extraction
user studies

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White, RW, Ruthven, I & Jose, JM 2002, 'Finding relevant documents using top-ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative techniques', Paper presented at Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information (SIGIR 2002), Tampere, Findland, 11/08/02 - 15/08/02 pp. 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1145/564376.564389

Finding relevant documents using top-ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative techniques. / White, R.W.; Ruthven, I.; Jose, J.M.
2002. 57-64 Paper presented at Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information (SIGIR 2002), Tampere, Findland.

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