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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 6 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 ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
A study of query length
We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Pois...
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval
In this poster,we incorporate user query history, as context information, to improve the retrieval performance in interactive retrieval. Experiments using the TREC data show that ...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The impact of history length on personalized search
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
Yangbo Zhu, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
The loquacious user: a document-independent source of terms for query expansion
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a documentindependent technique for eliciting feedback from users about their information problems. We propose that such a techni...
Diane Kelly, Vijay Deepak Dollu, Xin Fu