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COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Translating Queries into Snippets for Improved Query Expansion
User logs of search engines have recently been applied successfully to improve various aspects of web search quality. In this paper, we will apply pairs of user queries and snippe...
Stefan Riezler, Yi Liu, Alexander Vasserman
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...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Extending query translation to cross-language query expansion with markov chain models
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Using Clustering and Blade Clusters in the Terabyte Task
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
Giuseppe Attardi, Andrea Esuli, Chirag Patel