ISR11 Scientific Report No. ISR-11 Information Storage and Retrieval Relevance Feedback in an Information Retrieval System chapter W. Riddle T. Horwitz R. Dietz Harvard University Gerard Salton Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. v'-31 Document Relevant Weighting Rank [OCRerr]ame Applied Initial 1 307R0LE OF / X 1 Results 2 IIO2CENTRALI 0 3 3O2RECORDING 0 4 lO9STATUS RE 0 5 l2l[OCRerr]WARD A 0 6 l20IACCRRDIT 0 7 llo[OCRerr] AUTO 0 Results After 1 307R0LE OF I x 1 First Update 2 IIO2CENTRALI -1 3 3O2RECORDING -1 4 lO9STATUS RE -1 5 l2l[OCRerr]0WARD A 0 6 120IACCREDIT 0 ______________ 7 1107TI]E AUTO 0 Results After 1 3O7ROLE OF / x 1 Second Update 2 90[OCRerr]0CU[OCRerr]ENT 0 3 214ELECTR0NI 0 4 20IA SYSTEM 0 5 209TRE REDUC X 1 6 903THE USE 0 0 7 203NEW P}[OCRerr]T0 X 1 Results After 1 3OThOLE OF I x Third Update 2 209THE REDUC x 3 203NEw H[OCRerr]0 X 4 214ELECTR0NI 5 90[OCRerr]CUME[OCRerr] 6 20IA SYATEM 7 21IA C0[OCRerr]PUTE x 10 206ANALYSIS x [OCRerr]ery OAI2JOURNAL dosine Correlation Function Constant Alpha Strategy The Effect of Negative Weightings Applied to Nonrelevant Documents which Consistently Appear on the Output List With a Relatively High Correlation Figure 3