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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Comparing and Combining Methods for Automatic Query Expansion
Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...
José R. Pérez-Agüera, Lourdes A...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Query Performance Prediction: Evaluation Contrasted with Effectiveness
Query performance predictors are commonly evaluated by reporting correlation coefficients to denote how well the methods perform at predicting the retrieval performance of a set of...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra, Fr...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion
In document retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback, after initial ranking, a fixed number of top-ranked documents are selected as feedback to build a new expansion query model. ...
Qiang Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The loquacious user: a document-independent source of terms for query expansion
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a documentindependent technique for eliciting feedback from users about their information problems. We propose that such a techni...
Diane Kelly, Vijay Deepak Dollu, Xin Fu