Highlighting Relevant Passages for Users of the Interactive SPIDER Retrieval System.
Daniel Knaus, Elke Mittendorf, Peter Scháuble, Páraic Sheridan · 1995
We report here on our participation in the 1995 Text Retrieval (TREC 4) conference. This was limited to participation in the interactive searching task due to a re-implementation of our SPIDER retrieval system. We report on two aspects of the SPIDER system that are particularly useful for interactive searching, namely the use of fast query evaluation, and the use of passage highlighting in presenting retrieved documents to users. We also report on the lessons learned from observing people interact with our system and note the challenge faced by researchers wishing to evaluate the interactive use of information retrieval systems. 1 Introduction Due to the evolution of the SPIDER system over the years, in part because of lessons learned from participation in past TREC conferences, and to allow a more seamless integration of SPIDER's different facets, we have this year undertaken a major redesign and reimplementation of the SPIDER retrieval system. A major objective of this redesign was ...