Concept Based Tie-breaking and Maximal Marginal Relevance Retrieval in Microblog Retrieval

Kuang Lu, Diego Roa, Hui Min Fang · Text REtrieval Conference · 2014

Abstract : There are enormous tweets posted on any given day, and the number keeps increasing. As a result, the needs of effectively retrieving tweets depending upon user s information need, and summarizing tweets pertaining to a given topic have become increasingly important. In this paper, Wikipedia concepts [1] was introduced in tie-breaking to perform ad-hoc microblog retrieval. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) [2] criterion is deployed to summarize relevant tweets.

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