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IC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Concept Based Query Enhancement in the ARCH Search Agent
The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Query Expansion with Stemming Terms: A New Genetic Algorithm Approach
Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
Lourdes Araujo, José R. Pérez-Ag&uum...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 9 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
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 12 months ago
Context-sensitive query auto-completion
Query auto completion is known to provide poor predictions of the user’s query when her input prefix is very short (e.g., one or two characters). In this paper we show that con...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Naama Kraus