Probabilistic retrieval, component fusion and blind feedback for XML retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Ray R. Larson

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, California

  • Venue:
  • INEX'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper describes the retrieval approaches used by UC Berkeley in our official submissions for the various Adhoc tasks. As in previous INEX evaluations, the main technique we are testing is the fusion of multiple probabilistic searches against different XML components using different probabilistic retrieval algorithms. In addition this year we began to use a different fusion/combination method from previous years. This year we also continued to use re-estimated Logistic Regression (LR) parameters for different components of the IEEE document collection, estimated using relevance judgements from the INEX 2003 evaluation. All of our runs were fully automatic with no manual editing or interactive submission of queries, and all used only the title elements of the INEX topics.