Retrieval Through Explanation: An Abductive Inference Approach to Relevance Feedback
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas, C. J. van Rijsbergen · Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) · 1999
Relevance feedback techniques are designed to automatically improve a system's representation of a query by using documents the user has marked as relevant. However, traditional relevance feedback models suffer from a number of limitations that restrict their potential in supporting information seeking. One of the major limitations of relevance feedback is that it does not incorporate behavioural aspects of information seeking- how and why users assess relevance. We propose that relevance feedback should be viewed as a process of explanation and demonstrate how this limitation of relevance feedback techniques can be overcome by a theory of relevance feedback based on abductive inference. 1.