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Find-Similar: Similarity Browsing As A Search Tool, Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
Find-Similar: Similarity Browsing As A Search Tool, Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series
Search systems have for some time provided users with the ability to request documents similar to a given document. Interfaces provide this feature via a link or button for each document in the search results. We call this feature findsimilar or similarity browsing. We examined find-similar as a search tool, like relevance feedback, for improving retrieval performance. Our investigation focused on find-similar’s document-to-document similarity, the reexamination of documents during a search, and the user’s browsing pattern. Find-similar with a query-biased similarity, avoiding the reexamination of documents, and a breadth-like browsing pattern achieved a 23% increase in the arithmetic mean average …