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NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Query Ambiguity Revisited: Clickthrough Measures for Distinguishing Informational and Ambiguous Queries
Understanding query ambiguity in web search remains an important open problem. In this paper we reexamine query ambiguity by analyzing the result clickthrough data. Previously pro...
Yu Wang, Eugene Agichtein
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Modeling higher-order term dependencies in information retrieval using query hypergraphs
Many of the recent, and more effective, retrieval models have incorporated dependencies between the terms in the query. In this paper, we advance this query representation one st...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft
WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 3 months ago
Effective query formulation with multiple information sources
Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
AICS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
The Effect of Query Length on Normalisation in Information Retrieval
Document length normalisation is known to be a difficult problem in IR, as tuning is often needed to overcome the collection dependence problem known to affect many normalisation s...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan