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IRAL
2003
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Issues in pre- and post-translation document expansion: untranslatable cognates and missegmented words
Query expansion by pseudo-relevance feedback is a well-established technique in both mono- and cross- lingual information retrieval, enriching and disambiguating the typically ter...
Gina-Anne Levow
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
ICTAI
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Query Expansion and Query Reduction in Document Retrieval
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti, Yingying Wen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Query-drift prevention for robust query expansion
Pseudo-feedback-based automatic query expansion yields effective retrieval performance on average, but results in performance inferior to that of using the original query for many...
Liron Zighelnic, Oren Kurland
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Query recovery of short user queries: on query expansion with stopwords
User queries to search engines are observed to predominantly contain inflected content words but lack stopwords and capitalization. Thus, they often resemble natural language que...
Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones