https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1207.1847/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43968999urn:hackerpapers:mention:1207.1847:43968999Tue, 13 May 2025 01:39:52 GMT<p>Regarding item (2), Salton did talk about this and many systems from the early TREC times implemented them. In my own work, I found that relevance feedback worked very well with only a few dozen judgements. See Chapter 7 starting on page 83 in my dissertation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1847 Note also that the evaluation of Luduan in that chapter compared against state-of-the-art (for the time) back-of-words systems but also an early word embedding retrieval system (Convectis from HNC).</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1207.1847/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL