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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Query length in interactive information retrieval
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young ...
WAIM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic-Based Grouping of Search Engine Results Using WordNet
Terms used in search queries often have multiple meanings. Consequently, search results corresponding to different meanings may be retrieved, making identifying relevant results in...
Reza Hemayati, Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
Xiaobing Xue, Samuel Huston, W. Bruce Croft
AIRS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Query Expansion with ConceptNet and WordNet: An Intrinsic Comparison
This paper compares the utilization of ConceptNet and WordNet in query expansion. Spreading activation selects candidate terms for query expansion from these two resources. Three m...
Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Compressing term positions in web indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
Hao Yan, Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel