In this paper, we propose a novel approach to expand queries by exploring both location information and topic information of the queries. Users at different locations tend to have...
Shu Huang, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee G...
The paper describes our participation in Monolingual tasks at CLEF 2007. We submitted results for the following languages: Hungarian, Bulgarian and Czech. We focused on studying d...
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...