Research Article

Relevance Feedback Based Query Expansion Model Using Borda Count and Semantic Similarity Approach

Table 2

The comparison of different QE term selection methods with Okapi-BM25 in terms of average precision and recall for FIRE dataset.

MethodsTop 10 retrieved documentsTop 25 retrieved documentsTop 50 retrieved documents
Average precisionAverage recallAverage precisionAverage recallAverage precisionAverage recall

Okapi-BM250.22170.10430.21750.18710.18390.2957
CBQE0.22210.11760.21630.19650.18470.2963
RSVBQE0.23800.11840.22010.19940.18950.3045
IGBQE0.24190.12970.24580.21420.23910.3205
KLDBQE0.25170.12990.24810.21500.23970.3268