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CLEF
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2008
The domain-specific track evaluates retrieval models for structured scientific bibliographic collections in English, German and Russian. Documents contain elements (title, abstrac...
Vivien Petras, Stefan Baerisch
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Experiments for the Cross Language Speech Retrieval Task at CLEF 2006
This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Ranking information resources in peer-to-peer text retrieval: an experimental study
This paper experimentally studies approaches to the problem of ranking information resources w.r.t. user queries in peer-to-peer information retrieval. In distributed environments...
Hans F. Witschel
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Hierarchical Location and Topic Based Query Expansion
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to expand queries by exploring both location information and topic information of the queries. Users at different locations tend to have...
Shu Huang, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee G...
DEXA
2006
Springer
141views Database» more  DEXA 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Multi-term Web Query Expansion Using WordNet
In this paper, we propose a method for multi-term query expansions based on WordNet. In our approach, Hypernym/Hyponymy and Synonym relations in WordNet is used as the basic expans...
Zhiguo Gong, Chan Wa Cheang, Leong Hou U
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
ImageCLEF 2006 Experiments at the Chemnitz Technical University
We present a report about our participation in the ImageCLEF photo task 2006 and a short description of our new framework for future use in further CLEF participations....
Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl
AIRS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Query Expansion with ConceptNet and WordNet: An Intrinsic Comparison
This paper compares the utilization of ConceptNet and WordNet in query expansion. Spreading activation selects candidate terms for query expansion from these two resources. Three m...
Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen
CICLING
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Multi Word Term Queries for Focused Information Retrieval
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
Eric SanJuan, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan
DASFAA
2009
IEEE
96views Database» more  DASFAA 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
A Revisit of Query Expansion with Different Semantic Levels
Abstract. Query expansion has received extensive attention in information retrieval community. Although semantic based query expansion appears to be promising in improving retrieva...
Ce Zhang, Bin Cui, Gao Cong, Yu-Jing Wang
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley