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CICLING
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Multi Word Term Queries for Focused Information Retrieval
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
Eric SanJuan, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan
IR
2008
13 years 7 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
APWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Suggesting Topic-Based Query Terms as You Type
— Query term suggestion that interactively expands the queries is an indispensable technique to help users formulate high-quality queries and has attracted much attention in the ...
Ju Fan, Hao Wu, Guoliang Li, Lizhu Zhou
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...