Result merging methods in distributed information retrieval with overlapping databases |
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| Authors: | Shengli Wu Sally McClean |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK |
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| Abstract: | In distributed information retrieval systems, document overlaps occur frequently among different component databases. This
paper presents an experimental investigation and evaluation of a group of result merging methods including the shadow document
method and the multi-evidence method in the environment of overlapping databases. We assume, with the exception of resultant
document lists (either with rankings or scores), no extra information about retrieval servers and text databases is available,
which is the usual case for many applications on the Internet and the Web.
The experimental results show that the shadow document method and the multi-evidence method are the two best methods when
overlap is high, while Round-robin is the best for low overlap. The experiments also show that 0,1] linear normalization
is a better option than linear regression normalization for result merging in a heterogeneous environment.
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| Keywords: | Result merging Distributed information retrieval Overlapping databases |
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