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ACL
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths
Web search engines today typically show results as a list of titles and short snippets that summarize how the retrieved documents are related to the query. However, recent researc...
Michael Kaisser, Marti A. Hearst, John B. Lowe
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Experiments for the Cross Language Speech Retrieval Task at CLEF 2006
This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen
ADC
2004
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Questioning Query Expansion: An Examination of Behaviour and Parameters
In information retrieval, queries can fail to find documents due to mismatch in terminology. Query expansion is a well-known technique addressing this problem, where additional q...
Bodo Billerbeck, Justin Zobel
SIGIR
1998
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley
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EVOW
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Improving Query Expansion with Stemming Terms: A New Genetic Algorithm Approach
Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
Lourdes Araujo, José R. Pérez-Ag&uum...