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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Mining dependency relations for query expansion in passage retrieval
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
Renxu Sun, Chai-Huat Ong, Tat-Seng Chua
IIR
2010
13 years 9 months ago
An Ontological Representation of Documents and Queries for Information Retrieval Systems
This paper presents a vector space model approach, for representing documents and queries, using concepts instead of terms and WordNet as a light ontology. This way, information o...
Mauro Dragoni, Célia da Costa Pereira, Andr...
JCDL
2010
ACM
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14 years 21 days ago
Exploiting time-based synonyms in searching document archives
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources
The quality of translation resources is arguably the most important factor affecting the performance of a cross-language information retrieval system. While many investigations ha...
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
TREC
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD Tasks
In our entry to the new HARD track, we have investigated two methods of interactively refining user search formulations. One method consists of asking the user to select a number ...
Olga Vechtomova, Eric Lam, Murat Karamuftuoglu