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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A few examples go a long way: constructing query models from elaborate query formulations
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
TREC
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Domain-Specific Synonym Expansion and Validation for Biomedical Information Retrieval (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2004)
In the domain of biomedical publications, synonyms and homonyms are omnipresent and pose a great challenge for document retrieval systems. For this year's TREC Genomics Ad ho...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon...
JCDL
2010
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Exploiting time-based synonyms in searching document archives
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents
Abstract. Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) assumes that the topranking n documents of the initial retrieval are relevant and extracts expansion terms from them. In this work, we int...
Karthik Raman, Raghavendra Udupa, Pushpak Bhattach...