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RIAO
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Subject Knowledge, Thesaurus-assisted Query Expansion and Search Success
This study explored how experts and novices in pedagogics expanded queries supported by the ERIC thesaurus, and how this was connected to the search success in an easy and a diffi...
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Expertise drift and query expansion in expert search
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...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Mining linguistic cues for query expansion: applications to drug interaction search
Given a drug under development, what are other drugs or biochemical compounds that it might interact with? Early answers to this question, by mining the literature, are valuable f...
Sheng Guo, Naren Ramakrishnan
ICAIL
2007
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Legal Query Expansion using Ontologies and Relevance Feedback
The aim of our research is the improvement of Boolean search with query expansion using lexical ontologies and user feedback. User studies strongly suggest that standard search tec...
Erich Schweighofer, Anton Geist
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization
We introduce a new theoretical derivation, evaluation methods, and extensive empirical analysis for an automatic query expansion framework in which model estimation is cast as a r...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson