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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources
The quality of translation resources is arguably the most important factor affecting the performance of a cross-language information retrieval system. While many investigations ha...
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Comparing and Combining Methods for Automatic Query Expansion
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...
José R. Pérez-Agüera, Lourdes A...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Mining dependency relations for query expansion in passage retrieval
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
Renxu Sun, Chai-Huat Ong, Tat-Seng Chua
ECIR
2009
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness
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...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis