Improving Similar Document Retrieval Using a Recursive Pseudo Relevance Feedback Strategy

Abstract

We present a recursive pseudo relevance feedback strategy for improving retrieval performance in similarity search. The strategy recursively searches on search results returned for a given query and produces a tree that is used for ranking. Experiments on the Reuters 21578 and WebKB datasets show how the strategy leads to a significant improvement in similarity search performance.

Publication
International Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ‘16)