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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Query word deletion prediction
Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Rosie Jones, Daniel C. Fain
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 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
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Text categorization by boosting automatically extracted concepts
Term-based representations of documents have found widespread use in information retrieval. However, one of the main shortcomings of such methods is that they largely disregard le...
Lijuan Cai, Thomas Hofmann
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Combining document representations for known-item search
This paper investigates the pre-conditions for successful combination of document representations formed from structural markup for the task of known-item search. As this task is ...
Paul Ogilvie, James P. Callan