Features
The main contributions:
- Novel relevance feedback methods
- Extensive comparison of pseudo and explicit relevance feedback methods
- Concept-based query modeling
- Novel method for linking queries to concept languages
- Understanding of relevant features for concept identification
- Wikipedia-based query modeling
- State of the art retrieval effectiveness on an extensive set of test collections
- And a LOT more...
Other Details
The public defense took place on
Friday 10 December 2010, 10:00 in the
Agnietenkapel. The pictures of the event are on Facebook and on Flickr.
The thesis has been released; the flash version of the thesis is available here and the HTML version can be found here. The full PDF document can be found here; if you're interested in separate chapters in PDF, you can find them in the official UvA repository.
Some common questions:
- Where can I read it?
The thesis can be viewed, downloaded, etc. using the links above.
- Where can I get it?
You can get a physical copy using the following ISBN number: 978-94-90371-49-4. Alternatively, you can send an e-mail and ask for a hardcopy nicely.
- What kind of editions are or will be available?
Besides the hard copy, there is an HTML, PDF, and Flash edition available. The links to each can be found above.