Simple Questions for Interactive Information Retrieval.

摘要

We explore simple questions that can be used for interactive information retrieval. We develop four techniques that have the potential to be used in an interactive setting. The techniques are designed to be easy to use and understand, and provide good improvements in performance with minimal effort from the user. We test the automatic versions of the techniques in two environments known to be difficult, and report significant improvements in performance as measured by MAP and GMAP over pseudo-relevance feedback. Our successful testing of one of the techniques in an interactive setting encourages the pursuit of more similar techniques to improve information retrieval with a new approach.