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A Re-Ranking Method Based on Irrelevant Documents in Ad-Hoc Retrieval

Authors Rabeb Mbarek, Mohamed Tmar, Hawete Hattab, Mohand Boughanem

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  • absorption of irrelevance
  • vector product

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for document re-ranking, which relies on the concept of negative feedback represented by irrelevant documents. In a previous paper, a pseudo-relevance feedback method is introduced using an absorbing document ~d which best fits the user's need. The document ~d is orthogonal to
the majority of irrelevant documents. In this paper, this document is used to re-rank the initial set of
ranked documents in Ad-hoc retrieval. The evaluation carried out on a standard document collection shows
the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Rabeb Mbarek, Mohamed Tmar, Hawete Hattab, and Mohand Boughanem. A Re-Ranking Method Based on Irrelevant Documents in Ad-Hoc Retrieval. In 5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 51, pp. 2:1-2:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.2

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Rabeb Mbarek
Mohamed Tmar
Hawete Hattab
Mohand Boughanem

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