Comparison of two interactive search refinement techniques

The paper presents two approaches to interactively refining user search formulations and their evaluation in the new High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track of TREC-12. One method consists of asking the user to select a number of sentences that may represent relevant documents, and then using the documents, whose sentences were selected for query expansion. The second method consists of showing to the user a list of noun phrases, extracted from the initial document set, and then expanding the query with the terms from the phrases selected by the user.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
• Keywords: NAACL 2004, NAACL 2007, Query Expansion, Relevant Documents, User Search Formulations