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CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
The Effectiveness of Query Expansion for Distributed Information Retrieval
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
Paul Ogilvie, James P. Callan
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
219views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...
Liang Jeff Chen, Yannis Papakonstantinou
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Study of Query Specificity
We analyse the statistical behavior of query-associated quantities in query-logs, namely, the sum and mean of IDF of query terms, otherwise known as query specificity and query mea...
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
AIRS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Query Type Identification Based on Click Through Information
We report on a study that was undertaken to better identify users' goals behind web search queries by using click through data. Based on user logs which contain over 80 millio...
Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
119views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
14 years 7 months ago
Rate-based query optimization for streaming information sources
Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
Stratis Viglas, Jeffrey F. Naughton