Exploring a multidimensional representation of documents and queries

Ingo Frommholz
,
Benjamin Piwowarski
,
Mounia Lalmas
,
Keith Van Rijsbergen

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Abstract

In Information Retrieval (IR), whether implicitly or explicitly, queries and documents are often represented as vectors. However, it may be more beneficial to consider documents and/or queries as multidimensional objects. Our belief is this would allow building "truly" interactive IR systems, i.e., where interaction is fully incorporated in the IR framework. The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics represents events and densities as multidimensional objects. This paper presents our first step towards building an interactive IR framework upon this formalism, by stating how the first interaction of the retrieval process, when the user types a query, can be formalised.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

Published - 01/01/2010

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2010

Publisher

LE CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/275692

Host publication title

nan

Access to documents

p57-piwowarski.pdf

Accepted author manuscript, 1.13 MB

License:CC BY-NC-ND