Evaluating the Interest of Revamping Past Search Results

In this paper we present two contributions: a method to construct simulated document collections suitable for information retrieval evaluation as well as an approach of information retrieval using past queries and based on result combination. Exponential and Zipf distribution as well as Bradford’s law are applied to construct simulated document collections suitable for information retrieval evaluation. Experiments comparing a traditional retrieval approach with our approach based on past queries using past queries show encouraging improvements using our approach