The effect of query length on normalisation in information retrieval

Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan

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Abstract

Document length normalisation is known to be a difficult problem in IR, as tuning is often needed to overcome the collection dependence problem known to affect many normalisation schemes. Furthermore, it has been shown in various studies that the most optimal level of normalisation to apply is correlated with query length. In this paper, we confirm this correlation and present experiments which investigates and explains the effect of query length on normalisation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science - 20th Irish Conference, AICS 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Pages26-32
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event20th Annual Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, AICS 2009 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 19 Aug 200921 Aug 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6206 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference20th Annual Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, AICS 2009
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period19/08/0921/08/09

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