Query Expansion Based on Modeling of Relevant Documents Pool

In information retrieval,relevance feedback is an effective way to improve retrieval performance.The goal is to input user's judgement on previous retrieved documents,and to select some terms for query expansion using certain strategy.This paper introduces some common query expansion approaches in relevance feedback based on probability model and vector space model,then a new term selection method is introduced based on language model,which takes into account two features of expanded terms-"relevance"and"coverage".The evaluation is conducted on the TREC Collection,which shows that our method is better than traditional ones on average precision.