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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
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Comparing and Combining Methods for Automatic Query Expansion
Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...
José R. Pérez-Agüera, Lourdes A...
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
ECIR
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness
Query expansion is an effective technique in improving the retrieval performance for ad-hoc retrieval. However, query expansion can also fail, leading to a degradation of the retri...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis