Inter and intra-document contexts applied in polyrepresentation Export

@inproceedings{Skov_IIiX_2006, abstract = {The principle of polyrepresentation offers a theoretical framework for handling multiple contexts in Information Retrieval (IR). This paper presents an empirical study of polyrepresentation of the information space with focus on inter and intra-document features. The Cystic Fibrosis test collection indexed in a best match system constitutes the experimental setting. Overlaps between four functionally and/or cognitively different representations are identified. Supporting the principle of polyrepresentation, results show that in general overlaps generated by three or four representations have higher precision than those generated from one or two overlaps both in structured and unstructured search mode. It is concluded that a highly structured query language is necessary when implementing the principle of polyrepresentation in a best match IR system because the principle is inherently Boolean. Finally a re-ranking test shows promising results when search results are re-ranked according to precision obtained in the overlaps.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Skov, Mette and Larsen, Birger and Ingwersen, Peter}, booktitle = {IIiX: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context}, citeulike-article-id = {5877182}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1164841}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1164820.1164841}, doi = {10.1145/1164820.1164841}, isbn = {1-59593-482-0}, keywords = {context, contextualir, document, ir}, location = {Copenhagen, Denmark}, pages = {97--101}, posted-at = {2009-10-02 15:23:46}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Inter and intra-document contexts applied in polyrepresentation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1164820.1164841}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - Skov_IIiX_2006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5877182 N2 - The principle of polyrepresentation offers a theoretical framework for handling multiple contexts in Information Retrieval (IR). This paper presents an empirical study of polyrepresentation of the information space with focus on inter and intra-document features. The Cystic Fibrosis test collection indexed in a best match system constitutes the experimental setting. Overlaps between four functionally and/or cognitively different representations are identified. Supporting the principle of polyrepresentation, results show that in general overlaps generated by three or four representations have higher precision than those generated from one or two overlaps both in structured and unstructured search mode. It is concluded that a highly structured query language is necessary when implementing the principle of polyrepresentation in a best match IR system because the principle is inherently Boolean. Finally a re-ranking test shows promising results when search results are re-ranked according to precision obtained in the overlaps. CY - Copenhagen, Denmark SN - 1-59593-482-0 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 101 TI - Inter and intra-document contexts applied in polyrepresentation PB - ACM T2 - IIiX: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context SP - 97 KW - context KW - contextualir KW - document KW - ir AU - Skov, Mette AU - Larsen, Birger AU - Ingwersen, Peter PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1164820.1164841 ER -