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 ...
Terms used in search queries often have multiple meanings. Consequently, search results corresponding to different meanings may be retrieved, making identifying relevant results in...
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 ...
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...
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...