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NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization
Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user's original query with additional related words. Current algorithms for ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Applying Query Expansion Techniques to Ad Hoc Monolingual Tasks with the IR-n System
The paper describes our participation in Monolingual tasks at CLEF 2007. We submitted results for the following languages: Hungarian, Bulgarian and Czech. We focused on studying d...
Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis
TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Can We Get A Better Retrieval Function From Machine?
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox, Li Wang
VLDB
2001
ACM
144views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
14 years 7 months ago
Approximate query processing using wavelets
Approximate query processing has emerged as a costeffective approach for dealing with the huge data volumes and stringent response-time requirements of today's decision-suppo...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev ...
DEXA
2001
Springer
91views Database» more  DEXA 2001»
14 years 4 days ago
Towards the Development of Heuristics for Automatic Query Expansion
Abstract. In this paper we study the performance of linguisticallymotivated conflation techniques for Information Retrieval in Spanish. In particular, we have studied the applicat...
Jesús Vilares, Manuel Vilares Ferro, Miguel...