2011/06/15 by Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Gorla, Jagadeesh +3
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Data Quality and Management #Expert finding and Q&A systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Information Retrieval and Search Behavior #cs.IR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1106.2946
openalex publication_date 2011/06/15 · arxiv created 2011/08/14 · arxiv updated 2011/08/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, an Eliteness Hypothesis for information retrieval is proposed, where we define two generative processes to create information items and queries. By assuming the deterministic relationships between the eliteness of terms and relevance, we obtain a new theoretical retrieval framework. The resulting ranking function is a unified one as it is capable of using available relevance information on both the document and the query, which is otherwise unachievable by existing retrieval models. Our preliminary experiment on a simple ranking function has demonstrated the potential of the approach.