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EDBT
2012
ACM
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12 years 1 months ago
Towards scalable data integration under constraints
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, with or without ontological constraints, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and d...
George Konstantinidis, José Luis Ambite
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
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...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
IHI
2012
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12 years 6 months ago
Health information searching behavior in MedlinePlus and the impact of tasks
Consumer health information is increasingly available online, but this vast amount of information is not necessarily accessible to general consumers. To design effective health in...
Yan Zhang, Peiling Wang, Amy Heaton, Heidi Winkler
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Multimodal Image Retrieval over a Large Database
We introduce a new multimodal retrieval technique which combines query reformulation and visual image reranking in order to deal with results sparsity and imprecision, respectively...
Débora Myoupo, Adrian Popescu, Hervé...
DOLAP
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Towards OLAP query reformulation in peer-to-peer data warehousing
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...
Matteo Golfarelli, Federica Mandreoli, Wilma Penzo...
IJWIS
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Patterns and transitions of query reformulation during web searching
— Purpose: To investigate and identify the patterns of interaction between searchers and search engine during Web searching. Design: We examined 2,465,145 interactions from 534,5...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Amanda Spink
LRE
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Automatically generating related queries in Japanese
Web searchers reformulate their queries, as they adapt to search engine behavior, learn more about a topic, or simply correct typing errors. Automatic query rewriting can help user...
Rosie Jones, Kevin Bartz, Pero Subasic, Benjamin R...
IPM
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the web: The interactive information retrieval context
This study examines the facets and patterns of multiple Web query reformulations with a focus on reformulation sequences. Based on IR interaction models, it was presumed that quer...
Soo Young Rieh, Hong Iris Xie
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to rank query reformulations
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...
Van Dang, Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft