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ICTAI
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Query Expansion and Query Reduction in Document Retrieval
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti, Yingying Wen
RIAO
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Using Markov Chains to Exploit Word Relationships in Information Retrieval
Document expansion and query expansion aim to add related terms into document and query representations in order to make them more complete. However, most previous studies are lim...
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
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
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
SLOQUE: slot-based query expansion for complex questions
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, ...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Reverted indexing for feedback and expansion
Traditional interactive information retrieval systems function by creating inverted lists, or term indexes. For every term in the vocabulary, a list is created that contains the d...
Jeremy Pickens, Matthew Cooper, Gene Golovchinsky