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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Query expansion using random walk models
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Query expansion using probabilistic local feedback with application to multimedia retrieval
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Retrieval effectiveness of an ontology-based model for information selection
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of nontextual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential for...
Latifur Khan, Dennis McLeod, Eduard H. Hovy
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A few examples go a long way: constructing query models from elaborate query formulations
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke