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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Query length in interactive information retrieval
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young ...
ICDE
2004
IEEE
101views Database» more  ICDE 2004»
16 years 3 months ago
Personalization of Queries in Database Systems
As information becomes available in increasing amounts to a wide spectrum of users, the need for a shift towards a more user-centered information access paradigm arises. We develo...
Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioannidis
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VLDB
2001
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 2 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
HICSS
1998
IEEE
117views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1998»
15 years 6 months ago
OBIWAN - A Visual Interface for Prompted Query Refinement
Typically, users submit very simple search queries to digital document data collections. Often these queries can result in extremely broad answers or answers in which document rel...
James W. Cooper, Roy J. Byrd
SIGIR
1998
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley