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SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...
Ian Ruthven
KDD
2007
ACM
169views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Exploiting underrepresented query aspects for automatic query expansion
Users attempt to express their search goals through web search queries. When a search goal has multiple components or aspects, documents that represent all the aspects are likely ...
Daniel Crabtree, Peter Andreae, Xiaoying Gao
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Improving Query Expansion with Stemming Terms: A New Genetic Algorithm Approach
Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
Lourdes Araujo, José R. Pérez-Ag&uum...
CORR
2008
Springer
127views Education» more  CORR 2008»
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...