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ICEIS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Creation and Maintenance of Query Expansion Rules
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Stefania Castellani, Aaron N. Kaplan, Fréd&...
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
RIAO
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Using Markov Chains to Exploit Word Relationships in Information Retrieval
Document expansion and query expansion aim to add related terms into document and query representations in order to make them more complete. However, most previous studies are lim...
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
COLING
2008
13 years 9 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
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...
Ian Ruthven