Document retrieval using feedback of non-relevant documents

  • Authors:
  • Hiroshi Murata;Takashi Onoda;Seiji Yamada

  • Affiliations:
  • Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan;Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan;National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • JSAI'03/JSAI04 Proceedings of the 2003 and 2004 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper reports a new document retrieval method using non-relevant documents. Suppose, we need to find documents interesting to the user in as few iterations of human intervention as possible. In each iteration, a relatively small set of documents is evaluated in terms of the relevance to the user's interest. Ordinary relevance feedback needs both relevant and non-relevant documents, but the initial set of documents checked by the user may often not include relevant documents. Accordingly we propose a new feedback method using non-relevant documents only. This "non-relevance feedback" selects documents classified as "not non-relevant" and close to the boundary defined by the discriminant function obtained from one-class SVM. Experiments show that this method can efficiently retrieve a relevant documents.