192
Voted
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 20 days ago
2012
ACM
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...
107
Voted
CVPR
2011
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2011
IEEE
Most effective particular object and image retrieval approaches are based on the bag-of-words (BoW) model. All state-of-the-art retrieval results have been achieved by methods tha...
92
Voted
CI
2007
14 years 10 months ago
2007
: When one tries to use the Web as a dictionary or encyclopedia, entering some single term into a search engine, the highly-ranked pages in the result can include irrelevant or use...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 11 months ago
2006
ACL Anthology
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
79
Voted
NIPS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user's original query with additional related words. Current algorithms for ...
CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
2001
Springer
In this paper we are mainly concerned with discussion of a formal model, based on the basic concept of divergence from information theory, for automatic query expansion. The basic...