Browsing by Author "Bellot, Patrice"

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    Combining Tags and Reviews to Improve Social Book Search Performance
    (Springer, 2018-08-15) Chaa, Messaoud; Nouali, Omar; Bellot, Patrice
    The emergence of Web 2.0 and social networks have provided important amounts of information that led researchers from different fields to exploit it. Social information retrieval is one of the areas that aim to use this social information to improve the information retrieval performance. This information can be textual, like tags or reviews, or non textual like ratings, number of likes, number of shares, etc. In this paper, we focus on the integration of social textual information in the research model. As it seems logical that integrating tags in the retrieval model should not be in the same way taken to integrate reviews, we will analyze the different influences of using tags and reviews on both the settings of retrieval parameters and the retrieval effectiveness. After several experiments, on the CLEF social book search collection, we concluded that combining the results obtained from two separate indexes and two models with specific parameters for tags and reviews gives good results compared to when using a single index and a single model.
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    New Technique to Deal With Verbose Queries in Social Book Search
    (CERIST, 2017) Chaa, Messaoud; Nouali, Omar; Bellot, Patrice
    Verbose query reduction and query term weighting are automatic techniques to deal with verbose queries. The objective is either to assign an appropriate weight to query terms according to their importance in the topic, or outright remove unsuitable terms from the query and keep only the suitable terms to the topic and user’s need. These techniques improve performance and provide good results for ad hoc information retrieval. In this paper we propose a new approach to deal with long verbose queries in Social Information Re-trieval (SIR) by taking Social Book Search as an example. In this approach, a new statistical measure was introduced to reduce and weight terms of verbose queries. Next, we expand he query by exploiting the similar books mentioned by users in their queries. We find that the proposed approach improves significantly the results.
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    Verbose Query Reduction by Learning to Rank for Social Book Search Track
    (CERIST, 2016-07) Chaa, Messaoud; Nouali, Omar; Bellot, Patrice
    In this paper, we describe our participation in the INEX 2016 Social Book Search Suggestion Track (SBS). We have exploited machine learning techniques to rank query terms and assign an appropriate weight to each one before applying a probabilistic information retrieval model (BM15). Thereafter, only the top-k terms are used in the matching model. Several features are used to describe each term, such as statistical features, syntactic features and others features like whether the term is present in similar books and in the profile of the topic starter. The model was learned using the 2014 and 2015 topics and tested with the 2016 topics. Our experiments show that our approach improves the search results.