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In this paper we report on a study of implicit feedback models for unobtrusively tracking the information needs of searchers. Such models use relevance information gathered from searcher interaction and can be a potential substitute for explicit relevance feedback. We introduce a variety of implicit feedback models designed to enhance an Information Retrieval (IR) system’s representation of searchers’ information needs. To benchmark their performance we use a simulation-centric evaluation methodology that measures how well each model learns relevance and improves search effectiveness. The results show that a heuristic-based binary voting model and one based on Jeffrey’s rule of conditioning [5] outperform the other models under investigation.
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White, R.W., Jose, J.M., van Rijsbergen, C.J., Ruthven, I. (2004). A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models. In: McDonald, S., Tait, J. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2997. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24752-4_23
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