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WSDM
2010
ACM
203views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 7 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
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Translating Queries into Snippets for Improved Query Expansion
User logs of search engines have recently been applied successfully to improve various aspects of web search quality. In this paper, we will apply pairs of user queries and snippe...
Stefan Riezler, Yi Liu, Alexander Vasserman
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion Using Side Collections and Thesauri
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 4 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