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CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Exploiting A Controlled Vocabulary to Improve Collection Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Query topic detection for reformulation
In this paper, we show that most multiple term queries include more than one topic and users usually reformulate their queries by topics instead of terms. In order to provide empi...
Xuefeng He, Jun Yan, Jinwen Ma, Ning Liu, Zheng Ch...
CN
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Generating Advanced Query Interfaces
With the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web, the number of information sources providing access to various types of data has increased considerably. While simple data ret...
Dongwon Lee, Divesh Srivastava, Dimitra Vista
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Xueqi Cheng
EKAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Visual Approach to Semantic Query Design Using a Web-Based Graphical Query Designer
Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SP...
Paul R. Smart, Alistair Russell, Dave Braines, Yan...