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...
Pseudo-relevance feedback, or query expansion, has been shown to improve retrieval performance in the adhoc retrieval task. In such a scenario, a few top-ranked documents are assu...
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
Search queries applied to extract relevant information from the World Wide Web over a period of time may be denoted as continuous search queries. The improvement of continuous sea...
Recent increase in the number of search engines on the Web and the availability of meta search engines that can query multiple search engines makes it important to find effective ...