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2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Examining the effectiveness of real-time query expansion
Interactive query expansion (IQE) (c.f. Efthimiadis, 1996) is a potentially useful technique to help searchers formulate improved query statements, and ultimately retrieve better ...
Ryen W. White, Gary Marchionini
ESWS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Effects of Using a Research Context Ontology for Query Expansion
This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
Carola Carstens
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Enabling Interactive Query Expansion through Eliciting the Potential Effect of Expansion Terms
Despite its potential to improve search effectiveness, previous research has shown that the uptake of interactive query expansion (IQE) is limited. In this paper, we investigate on...
Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthve...
ECIR
2009
Springer
13 years 2 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
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas