Re-examining the Potential Effectiveness of Interactive Query Expansion

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 213-220

  Ruthven, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY EXPANSION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 1542377532     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/860472.860475     Document Type: Conference Paper

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