Improving the retrieval effectiveness of very short queries

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-36

  Crouch, Carolyn J ^a   Crouch, Donald B ^a   Chen, Qingyan ^b   Holtz, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b Unisys   (United States)

Author keywords

Pseudo feedback; Query drift; Reranking; TREC; Very short queries

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

WEB SEARCHING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036028146     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(01)00023-1     Document Type: Article

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