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ENGL
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Effect of Surface Expansion and Compression on the Surface Tension of 1-octanol Solutions
This paper investigates how expansion and compression of the surface of a drop containing an organic compound, 1-octanol, affect surface tension. The experiments were performed in...
A. Firooz, P. Chen
TREC
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD Tasks
In our entry to the new HARD track, we have investigated two methods of interactively refining user search formulations. One method consists of asking the user to select a number ...
Olga Vechtomova, Eric Lam, Murat Karamuftuoglu
ICAIL
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Legal Query Expansion using Ontologies and Relevance Feedback
The aim of our research is the improvement of Boolean search with query expansion using lexical ontologies and user feedback. User studies strongly suggest that standard search tec...
Erich Schweighofer, Anton Geist
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Query expansion using random walk models
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 12 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