When Query Expansion Fails

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 387-388

  Billerbeck, Bodo ^a   Zobel, Justin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Measurement and Performance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

QUERY EXPANSION (QE);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 1542317645     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/860435.860514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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