Incorporating window-based passage-level evidence in document retrieval

• Main Authors: XI, Wensi, XU-RONG, Richard, KHOO, Christopher Soo Guan, LIM, Ee Peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/137; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1136/viewcontent/93502143ba3c89e76ac250f709d94a2a72be.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study investigated whether document retrieval can be improved if documents are divided into smaller sub-documents or passages and the retrieval score for these passages are incorporated in the final retrieval score for the whole document. The documents were segmented by sliding a window of a ce...