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SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources
The quality of translation resources is arguably the most important factor affecting the performance of a cross-language information retrieval system. While many investigations ha...
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
98
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Mining dependency relations for query expansion in passage retrieval
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
Renxu Sun, Chai-Huat Ong, Tat-Seng Chua
CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Applying Query Expansion Techniques to Ad Hoc Monolingual Tasks with the IR-n System
The paper describes our participation in Monolingual tasks at CLEF 2007. We submitted results for the following languages: Hungarian, Bulgarian and Czech. We focused on studying d...
Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis
93
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
KDD
2007
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Exploiting underrepresented query aspects for automatic query expansion
Users attempt to express their search goals through web search queries. When a search goal has multiple components or aspects, documents that represent all the aspects are likely ...
Daniel Crabtree, Peter Andreae, Xiaoying Gao