Heuristic ranking and diversification of web documents

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • E.M. Voorhees
  • L.P. Buckland
Book title The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009) Proceedings
Series NIST Special Publication, 500-278
Event Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), Gaithersburg, MD
Publisher Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam’s Intelligent Systems Lab in the web track at TREC 2009. We participated in the adhoc and diversity task. We find that spam is an important issue in the ad hoc task and that Wikipedia-based heuristic optimization approaches help to boost the retrieval performance, which is assumed to potentially reduce spam in the top ranked results. As for the diversity task, we explored different methods. Clustering and a topic model-based approach have a similar performance and both are relatively better than a query log based approach.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec18/papers/uamsterdam-derijke.WEB.pdf
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