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SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A few examples go a long way: constructing query models from elaborate query formulations
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
TREC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Query Expansion for Noisy Legal Documents
The vocabulary of the TREC Legal OCR collection is noisy and huge. Standard techniques for improving retrieval performance such as content-based query expansion are ineffective fo...
Lidan Wang, Douglas W. Oard
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Using the wisdom of the crowds for keyword generation
In the sponsored search model, search engines are paid by businesses that are interested in displaying ads for their site alongside the search results. Businesses bid for keywords...
Ariel Fuxman, Panayiotis Tsaparas, Kannan Achan, R...
IPM
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink