A study of factors affecting the utility of implicit relevance feedback Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1190738, abstract = {Implicit relevance feedback (IRF) is the process by which a search system unobtrusively gathers evidence on searcher interests from their interaction with the system. IRF is a new method of gathering information on user interest and, if IRF is to be used in operational IR systems, it is important to establish when it performs well and when it performs poorly. In this paper we investigate how the use and effectiveness of IRF is affected by three factors: search task complexity, the search experience of the user and the stage in the search. Our findings suggest that all three of these factors contribute to the utility of IRF.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {White, Ryen W. and Ruthven, Ian and Jose, Joemon M.}, booktitle = {SIGIR '05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval}, citeulike-article-id = {1190738}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1076044}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1076034.1076044}, doi = {10.1145/1076034.1076044}, isbn = {1-59593-034-5}, keywords = {gaia, implicit\_feedback, ir, relevance\_feedback}, location = {Salvador, Brazil}, pages = {35--42}, posted-at = {2008-03-28 20:25:55}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A study of factors affecting the utility of implicit relevance feedback}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1076034.1076044}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1190738 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1190738 N2 - Implicit relevance feedback (IRF) is the process by which a search system unobtrusively gathers evidence on searcher interests from their interaction with the system. IRF is a new method of gathering information on user interest and, if IRF is to be used in operational IR systems, it is important to establish when it performs well and when it performs poorly. In this paper we investigate how the use and effectiveness of IRF is affected by three factors: search task complexity, the search experience of the user and the stage in the search. Our findings suggest that all three of these factors contribute to the utility of IRF. CY - Salvador, Brazil SN - 1-59593-034-5 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 42 TI - A study of factors affecting the utility of implicit relevance feedback PB - ACM T2 - SIGIR '05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval SP - 35 KW - gaia KW - implicit_feedback KW - ir KW - relevance_feedback AU - White, Ryen AU - Ruthven, Ian AU - Jose, Joemon PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1076034.1076044 ER -