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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
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...