The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2010: Session, Entity, and Relevance Feedback

Publication Type  Conference Paper
Author  Bron M., He J., Hofmann K., Meij E., de Rijke M., Tsagkias E., Weerkamp W.
Year of Publication  2011
Conference Name  TREC 2010
Month Published  February
Publisher  NIST
Abstract  

We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's ILPS group in the session, entity, and relevance feedback track at TREC 2010. In the Session track we investigate the use of blind relevance feedback for taking information about a previous query into account when retrieving documents for a follow-up query. In the Entity Track REF task we experiment with a window size parameter to limit the contexts that are considered by our co-occurrence model and explore the use of Freebase for type filtering, entity normalization and homepage finding. To address the ELC task we locate candidate entities based on objects shared with the example entities and rank candidates based on the predicates and objects they share with the example entities. In the relevance feedback track we evaluate a novel model that uses wikipedia as a pivot language for estimating query models.

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