Document (#30268)

Author

Elovici, Y.
Shapira, Y.B.
Kantor, P.B.

Title

¬A decision theoretic approach to combining information filters : an analytical and empirical evaluation.

Source

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 57(2006) no.3, S.306-320

Year

2006

Abstract

The outputs of several information filtering (IF) systems can be combined to improve filtering performance. In this article the authors propose and explore a framework based on the so-called information structure (IS) model, which is frequently used in Information Economics, for combining the output of multiple IF systems according to each user's preferences (profile). The combination seeks to maximize the expected payoff to that user. The authors show analytically that the proposed framework increases users expected payoff from the combined filtering output for any user preferences. An experiment using the TREC-6 test collection confirms the theoretical findings.

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