@inproceedings{5dc918db89014d54928f22adf2743f7e,
title = "Retrieving documents by plausible inference: A preliminary study",
abstract = "Choosing an appropriate document representation and search strategy for document retrieval has been largely guided by achieving good average performance instead of optimizing the results for each individual query. A model of retrieval based on plausible inference gives us a different perspective and suggests that techniques should be found for combining multiple sources of evidence (or search strategies) into an overall assessment of a document's relevance, rather than attempting to pick a single strategy. In this paper, we explain our approach to plausible inference for retrieval and describe some preliminary experiments designed to test this approach. The experiments use a spreading activation search to implement the plausible inference process. The results show that significant effectiveness improvements are possible using this approach.",
author = "Croft, {W. B.} and Lucia, {T. J.} and Cohen, {P. R.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1988 ACM.; 11th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1988 ; Conference date: 13-06-1988 Through 15-06-1988",
year = "1988",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/62437.62491",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1988",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "481--494",
editor = "Yves Chiaramella",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1988",
}