SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Most effective particular object and image retrieval approaches are based on the bag-of-words (BoW) model. All state-of-the-art retrieval results have been achieved by methods tha...
CI
2007
14 years 9 days ago
2007
: When one tries to use the Web as a dictionary or encyclopedia, entering some single term into a search engine, the highly-ranked pages in the result can include irrelevant or use...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 1 months ago
2006
ACL Anthology
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
NIPS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user's original query with additional related words. Current algorithms for ...
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2001
Springer
In this paper we are mainly concerned with discussion of a formal model, based on the basic concept of divergence from information theory, for automatic query expansion. The basic...