University of Strathclyde: The i-lab group's first big day out atTREC HARD
Mark Baillie, David Elsweiler, Emma Nicol, Ian Ruthven, Sarah Sweeney, Murat Yakıcı, Fábio Crestani, Monica Landoni · 2005
The motivation behind the University of Strathclyde’s approach to this years HARD track was inspired from previous experiences by other participants, in particular research by [1], [3] and [4]. A running theme throughout these papers was the underlying hypothesis that a user’s familiarity in a topic (i.e. their previous experience searching a subject), will form the basis for what type or style of document they will perceive as relevant. In other words, the user’s context with regards to their previous search experience will determine what type of document(s) they wish to retrieve.