Relevance Feedback

Application and evaluation of methods for relevance feedback and thesaurus, based on query expansion.

How To Run

Execute the application with the following command:

doc stopwords queries GS weights scores relevance

Parameters:

• doc - name of document/directory to read;
• stopwords - file of stopwords;
• queries - file of the queries;
• GS - file with the relevance of the queries (Gold Standard);
• weights - file to save the indexer with the associated weights;
• scores - file to save the scores;
• relavance - relevance’s type. It can be explicit or implicit;

Example:

cranfield stopwords.txt cranfield.queries.txt cranfield.query.relevance.txt DocumentWeighter.txt ScoreResults.txt implicit