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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Topic-sensitive interactive image object retrieval with noise-proof relevance feedback
One current direction to enhance the search accuracy in visual object retrieval is to reformulate the original query through (pseudo-)relevance feedback, which augments a query wi...
Jen-Hao Hsiao, Henry Chang
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
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Query-drift prevention for robust query expansion
Pseudo-feedback-based automatic query expansion yields effective retrieval performance on average, but results in performance inferior to that of using the original query for many...
Liron Zighelnic, Oren Kurland
TREC
2008
13 years 5 months ago
External Query Expansion in the Blogosphere
: We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's ILPS group in the blog track at TREC 2008. We mainly explored different ways of using external corpora to expa...
Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Query suggestion using hitting time
Generating alternative queries, also known as query suggestion, has long been proved useful to help a user explore and express his information need. In many scenarios, such sugges...
Qiaozhu Mei, Dengyong Zhou, Kenneth Ward Church
VLDB
1997
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources
Many sources on the Internet and elsewhere rank the objects in query results according to how well these objects match the original query. For example, a real-estate agent might r...
Luis Gravano, Hector Garcia-Molina
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Generating query substitutions
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
156views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Structural Relaxation of XPath Queries
Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...
Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura