On clustering and polyrepresentation

Abstract

Polyrepresentation is one of the most prominent principles in a cognitive approach to interactive information seeking and retrieval. When it comes to interactive retrieval, clustering is another method for accessing information. While polyrepresentation has been explored and validated in a scenario where a system returns a ranking of documents, so far there are no insights if and how polyrepresentation and clustering can be combined. In this paper we discuss how both are related and present an approach to integrate polyrepresentation into clustering. We further report some initial evaluation results.