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NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization
Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user's original query with additional related words. Current algorithms for ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
AIRS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Combining WordNet and ConceptNet for Automatic Query Expansion: A Learning Approach
We present a novel approach that transforms the weighting task to a typical coarse-grained classification problem, aiming to assign appropriate weights for candidate expansion term...
Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
TREC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Query Expansion for Noisy Legal Documents
The vocabulary of the TREC Legal OCR collection is noisy and huge. Standard techniques for improving retrieval performance such as content-based query expansion are ineffective fo...
Lidan Wang, Douglas W. Oard
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A latent variable model for query expansion using the hidden markov model
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
Qiang Huang, Dawei Song