Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: A Preliminary Study.

W. Bruce Croft, T. J. Lucia, Paul R. Cohen: Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: A Preliminary Study. SIGIR 1988: 481-494

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/CroftLC88,
  author    = {W. Bruce Croft and
               T. J. Lucia and
               Paul R. Cohen},
  editor    = {Yves Chiaramella},
  title     = {Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: A Preliminary Study},
  booktitle = {SIGIR'88, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM SIGIR
               Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
               Grenoble, France, June 13-15, 1988},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1988},
  pages     = {481-494},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/CroftLC88.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/88},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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Choosing an appropriate document representation and search strategy for document retrieval has been largely guided by achieving good average performance instead of optimizing the results for each individual query. A model of retrieval based on plausible inference gives us a different perspective and suggests that techniques should be found for combining multiple sources of evidence (or search strategies) into an overall assessment of a document's relevance, rather than attempting to pick a single strategy. In this paper, we explain our approach to plausible inference for retrieval and describe some preliminary experiments designed to test this approach. The experiments use a spreading activation search to implement the plausible inference process. The results show that significant effectiveness improvements are possible using this approach.

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