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Using string comparison in context for improved relevance feedback in different text media

Lam-Adesina, Adenike M. and Jones, Gareth J.F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 (2006) Using string comparison in context for improved relevance feedback in different text media. In: the 13th Symposium on String Processing and Information retrieval (SPIRE 2006), October 2006, Glasgow, Scotland.

Abstract
Query expansion is a long standing relevance feedback technique for improving the effectiveness of information retrieval systems. Previous investigations have shown it to be generally effective for electronic text, to give proportionally better improvement for automatic transcriptions of spoken documents, and to be at best of questionable utility for optical character recognized scanned text documents. We introduce two corpus-based methods based on using a string-edit distance measure in context to automatically detect and correct transcription errors. One method operates at query-time and requires no modification of the document index file, and the other at index-time and operates using the standard query-time expansion process. Experimental investigations show these methods to produce improvements in relevance feedback for all three media types, but most significantly mean that relevance feedback can now successfully be applied to scanned text documents.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:http://www.springerlink.com/content/j88xl777624711...
Copyright Information:(c) Springer Verlag The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16285
Deposited On:26 Apr 2011 15:19 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 25 Oct 2018 12:47
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