Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
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...
Interactive query expansion (IQE) (c.f. Efthimiadis, 1996) is a potentially useful technique to help searchers formulate improved query statements, and ultimately retrieve better ...
The aim of our research is the improvement of Boolean search with query expansion using lexical ontologies and user feedback. User studies strongly suggest that standard search tec...
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...