Term Selection and Query Operations for Video Retrieval

Abstract. We investigate the influence of term selection and query operations on the text retrieval component of video search. Our main finding is that the greatest gain is to be found in the combination of character n-grams, stemmed text, and proximity terms.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ECIR
• Authors: Bouke Huurnink, Maarten de Rijke
• Keywords: ECIR 2007, Information Technology, Query Operations, Term Selection, Text Retrieval Component