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TREC
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Query Expansion for Noisy Legal Documents
The vocabulary of the TREC Legal OCR collection is noisy and huge. Standard techniques for improving retrieval performance such as content-based query expansion are ineffective fo...
Lidan Wang, Douglas W. Oard
RIAO
2007
14 years 11 months ago
An Information Retrieval Driven by Ontology: from Query to Document Expansion
The paper proposes an approach to information retrieval based on the use of a structure (ontology) both for document (resp. query) indexing and query evaluating. The conceptual st...
Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Gabriella Pasi, ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 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
AIRS
2008
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Combining WordNet and ConceptNet for Automatic Query Expansion: A Learning Approach
We present a novel approach that transforms the weighting task to a typical coarse-grained classification problem, aiming to assign appropriate weights for candidate expansion term...
Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen
AWIC
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Conceptual Query Expansion
Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
Orland Hoeber, Xue Dong Yang, Yiyu Yao