We took part in the HARD track, with an active learning method to choose which document snippets to show the user for relevance feedback (compared to baseline feedback using snippets from the top-ranked documents). The active learning method is described, and some prior experiments with the Reuters collection are summarised. We also invited user feedback on phrases chosen from the top retrieved...

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