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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 27 days 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
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
WSDM
2009
ACM
114views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Wikipedia pages as entry points for book search
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...
Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Interactive Retrieval Using Weights
Using the same interactive IR component as for TREC 2006, this submission probed the ability of a user without requisite domain knowledge to interactively set appropriate weights....
Jonathan Schuman, Sabine Bergler