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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
Xiaobing Xue, Samuel Huston, W. Bruce Croft
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Keyword query cleaning
Unlike traditional database queries, keyword queries do not adhere to predefined syntax and are often dirty with irrelevant words from natural languages. This makes accurate and e...
Ken Q. Pu, Xiaohui Yu
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Xueqi Cheng
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Search words and geography
In this paper, we present a preliminary study of geographic query words, which users' tend to re-use. The categories of the words demonstrate that geographically related word...
Mark Sanderson, Yu Han
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Window-Based Method for Information Retrieval
In this paper, a series of window-based methods is proposed for information retrieval. Compared with traditional tf-idf model, our approaches are based on two new key notions. The ...
Qianli Jin, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Novelty detection based on sentence level patterns
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this paper, a new novelty detection approach based on the identi...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft