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'-37 Results for Query No.9 [OCRerr]A9A[OCRerr]YSIS Document No. Name Relevant Correlation 39 51ThESEARCH .43301270 47 lll6RETRIEVA .42135049 11 lll7[OCRerr]ŁAN[OCRerr]NG .40209035 62 809A MECHANI .39900373 12 lII3THE MATE .34815531 2 814A NEW ERR .34299717 4 30Th0LE OF / .32478490 17 3OIDOCUMENT .32075015 9 206MIALYs1s .29329423 23 815A FACET A .29329423 27 5041s RELEVA .28867513 21 1209SCIENCE .28724249 1 lIO4THE IBM .28647316 71 lO8SEARCHERS .28517591 70 6OIENCODING .28306926 N Query(l) = Query(O) + Alpha z WEIGHT( I) 1=1 (1) * Document of Rank I Document Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Weight Alpha = 2 (a) Initial Results (Cosine Correlation) Unsuccessful Use of Negative Weighting There are two relevant documents in the collection. Figure 5