An Experiment in Building Profiles in Information Filtering: The Role of Context of User Relevance Feedback.

Quiroga, Luz M.; Mostafa, Javed

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ERIC Number: EJ654185

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Publication Date: 2002

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An Experiment in Building Profiles in Information Filtering: The Role of Context of User Relevance Feedback.

Quiroga, Luz M.; Mostafa, Javed

Information Processing & Management, v38 n5 p671-94 Sep 2002

Describes an experiment that investigated how relevance feedback could be used to build and adjust profiles to improve filtering system performance. Explains the use of the SIFTER (Smart Information Filtering Technology for Electronic Resources) filtering system by graduate students and discusses results that established the importance of context in feedback relevance assessments. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Context Effect, Feedback, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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