Our participation in TREC 2004 aims to extend and improve the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) for the robust track. We experiment with...
Despite its potential to improve search effectiveness, previous research has shown that the uptake of interactive query expansion (IQE) is limited. In this paper, we investigate on...
Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthve...
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...
Users attempt to express their search goals through web search queries. When a search goal has multiple components or aspects, documents that represent all the aspects are likely ...