A retrospective study of probabilistic context-based retrieval

  • Authors:
  • H. C. Wu;R. W. P. Luk;K. F. Wong;K. L. Kwok;W. J. Li

  • Affiliations:
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;The Chinese University of Hong Kong;Queen's College, City University of New York;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a novel probabilistic retrieval model which weights terms according to their contexts in documents. The term weighting function of our model is similar to the language model and the binary independence model. The retrospective experiments (i.e., relevance information is present) illustrate the potential of our probabilistic context-based retrieval where the precision at the top 30 documents is about 43% for TREC-6 data and 52% for TREC-7 data.