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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
WEBI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
The Effects of Query Bursts on Web Search
A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of s...
Ilija Subasic, Carlos Castillo
TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Expanding Queries Using Stems and Symbols
This paper describes the experiments conducted in the ad-hoc retrieval task of the Genomic track at TREC 2004. Different query expansion techniques based on the addition of keywor...
Michela Bacchin, Massimo Melucci
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu
BNCOD
2009
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13 years 8 months ago
A Study of a Positive Fragment of Path Queries: Expressiveness, Normal Form, and Minimization
We study the expressiveness of a positive fragment of path queries, denoted Path+ , on node-labeled trees documents. The expressiveness of Path+ is studied from two angles. First, ...
Yuqing Wu, Dirk Van Gucht, Marc Gyssens, Jan Pared...