Application of Markov chains in an interactive information retrieval system.
Gerald BenoîtPublished in: Inf. Process. Manag. (2005)
Keyphrases
- information retrieval systems
- markov chain
- information retrieval
- retrieval systems
- finite state
- document collections
- steady state
- stochastic process
- transition probabilities
- query expansion
- stationary distribution
- structured documents
- markov model
- markov processes
- user modelling
- relevance feedback
- user queries
- retrieval effectiveness
- random walk
- document indexing
- transition matrix
- probabilistic automata
- markov process
- relevant documents
- retrieval engine
- parameter estimation
- state space
- active learning
- learning algorithm