Re: Search accuracy
YUWONO BUDI (yuwono@uxmail.ust.hk)
Thu, 4 Apr 1996 02:11:41 +0800 (HKT)
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> ** Reply to note from Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com> 04/01/96 6:01pm
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> > Better yet might be iterated searching with ratings. You do an initial
> > search, then you can mark matches on the first page of returned results
> > for relevancy and rekey the search. The search engine could then re-rank
> > the returned results via a smart attempt to place the docs in an N-space
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> I once saw a search engine which did this. What was the name of it?
We have an experimental search engine that does this so called
relevance feedback at:
http://dbx.cs.ust.hk:8000/index.html (note: it's not the default page)
The idea is to expand the initial query by adding keywords from
hit-URL's marked as `relevant' (with respect to user's query) by the
user.
-Budi.