Using Document Relationships for Better Answers

  • Authors:
  • Mingfang Wu;Ross Wilkinson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PODDP '98 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Digital Document Processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In most retrieval systems the answer to a query is a ranked list of documents. There is little information about the ranking and no support for exploring the relationships that may exist between the documents. In this paper we consider the use of clustering answers to better support users satisfying their information needs. We show how clustering reflects the nature of some information needs, and how the clustering can be used to find more relevant documents than would be the case using simple lists. This work contributes to our approach of building answers to information needs, rather than simply providing lists.