Contextual retrieval supports differences amongst users in their information seeking requests. The Web, which is very dynamic
and nearly universally accessible, is an environment in which it is increasingly difficult for users to find documents that
satisfy their specific information needs. This problem is amplified as users tend to use short queries. Contextual retrieval
attempts to address this problem by incorporating knowledge about the user and past retrieval results in the search process.
In this paper we explore a feedback technique based on the Rocchio algorithm that significantly reduces demands on the user
while maintaining comparable performance on the Reuters-21578 corpus.