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NLDB
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Combining Vector Space Model and Multi Word Term Extraction for Semantic Query Expansion
Abstract. In this paper, we target document ranking in a highly technical field with the aim to approximate a ranking that is obtained through an existing ontology (knowledge stru...
Eric SanJuan, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, Juan Manuel ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on wikipedia
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
Yang Xu, Gareth J. F. Jones, Bin Wang
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents
Abstract. Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) assumes that the topranking n documents of the initial retrieval are relevant and extracts expansion terms from them. In this work, we int...
Karthik Raman, Raghavendra Udupa, Pushpak Bhattach...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval
For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural “hints” to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an...
Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas