The role of manually-assigned keywords in query expansion

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 441-458

  Taghva, Kazem ^a   Borsack, Julie ^a   Nartker, Thomas ^a   Condit, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Document keywords; Query expansion; Relevance feedback; Retrieval effectiveness; User satisfaction

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; WEB BROWSERS;

DOCUMENT KEYWORDS; QUERY EXPANSION; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; USER SATISFACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 1842832758     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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