Analysis of performance variation using query expansion

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 379-391

  Alemayehu, Nega ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

QUERY EXPANSION (QE);

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0037340341     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10217     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Allan, J., Connell, M.E., Croft, W.B., Feng, F.-F., Fisher, D., & Li, X. (2000). INQUERY and TREC-9. Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html.
2. Banks, D., Over, P., & Zhang, N.F. (1999). Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data. Information Retrieval, 1, 7-34.
3. Beaulieu, M., Robertson, S., & Rasmussen, E. (1996). Evaluating interactive systems in TREC. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 85-94.
4. Buckley, C. (2000). The TREC-9 query track. Available at: http://trec.nist. gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html.
5. Buckley, C., & Voorhees, E. (2000). Evaluating evaluation measure stability. In: Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, Athens, Greece (pp. 33-40).
6. Buckley, C., & Walz, J. (2000a). The TREC-8 query track. In: E.M. Voorhees & D. Harman (Eds.), Proceedings of the eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8) (NIST Special Publication 500-246).
7. Buckley, C., & Walz, J. (2000b). SabIR research at TREC-9. Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html.
8. Buckley, C., Singhal, A., & Mitra, M. (1997). Using query zoning and correlation within SMART: TREC 5. In: E.M. Voorhees & D. Harman (Eds.), Proceedings of the fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5) (NIST Special Publication 500-238, pp. 105-118).
9. Carpineto, C., de Mori, R., Romano, G., & Bigi, B. (2001). An information-theoretic approach to automatic query expansion. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 19(1), 1-27.
10. Crowder, M.J., & Hand, D.J. (1990). Analysis of repeated measures. Monograph on statistics and applied probability 41. London: Chapman.
11. D'Souza, D., Fuller, M., Thom, J., Vines, P., Zobel, J., de Kretser, O., Wilkinson, R., & Wu, (2000). Melbourne TREC-9 experiments. Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html.
12. Ekmekcioglu, F.C., Robertson, A.M., & Willett, P. (1992). Effectiveness of query expansion in ranked-output document retrieval systems. Journal of Information Science, 18(2), 139-147.
13. Efthimiadis, E.N. (1996). Query expansion. In: M.E. Williams (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 31, 121-187.
14. Everitt, B.S., & Der, G. (1998). A handbook of statistical analyses using SAS. London: Chapman & Hall.
15. Harman, D. (1988). Towards interactive query expansion. Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 323-331).
16. Harman, D. (1992a). Relevance feedback revisited. In: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on research and development in information retrieval, Copenhagen, Denmark.
17. Harman, D. (1992b). Relevance feedback and other query modification techniques. In: W.B. Frakes & R. Baeza-Yates (Eds.), Information retrieval: Data structures and algorithm (pp. 241-263). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
18. Hull, D.A. (1996). Stemming algorithms: A case study for detailed evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 70-84.
19. Jackson, S., & Brashers, D.E. (1994). Random factors in ANOVA. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series no. 98. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
20. Kekalainen, J., & Jarvelin, K. (1998). The impact of query structure and query expansion on retrieval performance. Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 130-137).
21. Mandala, R., Tokunaga, T., & Tanaka, H. (1999). Combining multiple evidence from different types of thesaurus for query expansion. Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (pp. 191-197).
22. Mitra, M., Singhal, A., & Buckley, C. (1998). Improving automatic query expansion. Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (pp. 206-214).
23. Peat, H.J., & Willett, P. (1991). The limitations of term co-occurrence data for query expansion in document retrieval systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 378-383.
24. Qiu, Y., & Frei, H. (1993). Concept based query expansion. Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (pp. 160-169).
25. Robertson, S.E., & Walker, S. (2000). Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-9: Filtering track. Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html.
26. Spink, A., Wolfram, D., Jansen, M.B.J., & Sarecevic, T. (2001) Searching the Web: The public and their queries. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(3), 227-234.
27. Tague-Sutcliff, J., & Blustein, J. (1995). A statistical analysis of the TREC-3 data. In: Harman, D.K. (Ed.), Proceedings of the third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-3) (pp. 385-398).Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
28. Tomlinson, S., & Blackwell, T. (2000). Hummingbird's Fulcrum Search-Server at TREC-9. Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html.
29. Voorhees, E., & Harman, D. (1997). Overview of the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC5). In: E.M. Voorhees, D.K. Harman, (Eds.), The Fifth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5), NIST Special Publication 500-238 (pp. 1-28).
30. Voorhees, E., & Harman, D. (Eds.). (2000). Overview of the Eighth Text REtrieval Conference. Proceedings of the eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8). NIST Special Publication 500-246.
31. Woods, W.A., Green, S., Martin, P., & Houston, A. (2000). Halfway to question answering. Available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/t9_proceedings.html.
32. Xu, J., & Croft, B. (1996). Query expansion using local and global document analysis. In: H. Frie, D. Harman, P. Schauble, & R. Witkinson (Eds.). Proceedings of the nineteenth international ACM-SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (pp. 4-11). Zurich, Switherland: ACM Press.
33. Xu, J., & Croft, B. (2000). Improving the effectiveness of information retrieval with local context analysis. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 18(1), 79-112.