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pseudo-relevance feedback: a standalone construct

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Information retrieval

improving a search by assuming that the top documents from a first retrieval are relevant and using them to reweight the query, with no input from the user.

In information retrieval, pseudo-relevance feedback refers to improving a search by assuming that the top documents from a first retrieval are relevant and using them to reweight the query, with no input from the user. This meaning comes from Croft (1979) in Journal of Documentation.[1]

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References

Croft, W. B., & Harper, D. J. (1979). Using Probabilistic Models of Document Retrieval Without Relevance Information. Journal of Documentation, 35(4), 285-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026683

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