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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Query expansion using probabilistic local feedback with application to multimedia retrieval
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Retrievability of Patents in Prior-Art Search
Prior-art search is an important task in patent retrieval. The success of this task relies upon the selection of relevant search queries. Typically terms for prior-art queries are ...
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber
IADIS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Relevance feedback using semantic association between indexing terms in large free text corpuses
Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...
Shahzad Khan, Kenan Azam
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...