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ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...
Ian Ruthven
ICAIL
2007
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Legal Query Expansion using Ontologies and Relevance Feedback
The aim of our research is the improvement of Boolean search with query expansion using lexical ontologies and user feedback. User studies strongly suggest that standard search tec...
Erich Schweighofer, Anton Geist
RIAO
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Subject Knowledge, Thesaurus-assisted Query Expansion and Search Success
This study explored how experts and novices in pedagogics expanded queries supported by the ERIC thesaurus, and how this was connected to the search success in an easy and a diffi...
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari