CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 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...
CORR
2011
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2011
Springer
Query expansion is a functionality of search engines that suggests a set of related queries for a user-issued keyword query. Typical corpus-driven keyword query expansion approach...
ECIR
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
Query expansion is an effective technique in improving the retrieval performance for ad-hoc retrieval. However, query expansion can also fail, leading to a degradation of the retri...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
JISE
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
This paper presents an interactive query expansion method with association thesaurus, which is mined from the ‘selected web pages’ of users in the query logs. The ‘selected w...
IPM
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Interactive query expansion (IQE) (c.f. Efthimiadis, 1996) is a potentially useful technique to help searchers formulate improved query statements, and ultimately retrieve better ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
CI
2007
13 years 11 months 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...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...