Combining fields in known-item email search

Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2006) Combining fields in known-item email search. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, 6-11 August 2006, pp. 675-676. ISBN 1595933697 (doi: 10.1145/1148170.1148312)

Abstract

Emails are examples of structured documents with various fields. These fields can be exploited to enhance the retrieval effectiveness of an Information Retrieval (IR) system that mailing list archives. In recent experiments of the TREC2005 Enterprise track, various fields were applied to varying degrees of success by the participants. In his work, using a field-based weighting model, we investigate the retrieval performance attainable by each field, and examine when fields evidence should be combined or not.

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• Keywords: Email, retrieval, fields, structure, metadata.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Macdonald, Professor Craig and Ounis, Professor Iadh
• Authors: Macdonald, C., and Ounis, I.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: ACM Press
• ISBN: 1595933697
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2006 ACM Press
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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