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WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic query expansion using query logs
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
Hang Cui, Ji-Rong Wen, Jian-Yun Nie, Wei-Ying Ma
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The loquacious user: a document-independent source of terms for query expansion
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a documentindependent technique for eliciting feedback from users about their information problems. We propose that such a techni...
Diane Kelly, Vijay Deepak Dollu, Xin Fu
RIAO
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Subject Knowledge, Thesaurus-assisted Query Expansion and Search Success
This study explored how experts and novices in pedagogics expanded queries supported by the ERIC thesaurus, and how this was connected to the search success in an easy and a diffi...
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari
WSDM
2010
ACM
203views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Query Reformulation Using Anchor Text
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have been studied as a method of capturing user intent and improving retrieval effectiveness. The evaluation of these techniques...
Van Dang, Bruce W. Croft
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Ranking information resources in peer-to-peer text retrieval: an experimental study
This paper experimentally studies approaches to the problem of ranking information resources w.r.t. user queries in peer-to-peer information retrieval. In distributed environments...
Hans F. Witschel