Comparing explicit and implicit feedback techniques for Web retrieval: TREC-10 interactive track report

Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven

Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) · 2002 · 42 citations · 1 references

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Abstract

In this paper we examine the extent to which implicit feedback (where the system attempts to estimate what the user may be interested in) can act as a substitute for explicit feedback (where searchers explicitly mark documents relevant). Therefore, we attempt to side-step the problem of getting users to explicitly mark documents relevant by making

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