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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Generalized syntactic and semantic models of query reformulation
We present a novel approach to query reformulation which combines syntactic and semantic information by means of generalized Levenshtein distance algorithms where the substitution...
Amac Herdagdelen, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Daniel M...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Query topic detection for reformulation
In this paper, we show that most multiple term queries include more than one topic and users usually reformulate their queries by topics instead of terms. In order to provide empi...
Xuefeng He, Jun Yan, Jinwen Ma, Ning Liu, Zheng Ch...