On document relevance and lexical cohesion between query terms

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1230-1247

  Vechtomova, Olga ^a   Karamuftuoglu, Murat ^b   Robertson, Stephen E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Document relevance; Information retrieval; Lexical cohesion; Word collocation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PERFORMANCE; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORD PROCESSING;

DOCUMENT RELEVANCE; HYPONYMY; LEXICAL COHESION; REPETITION; SIBLING; SYNONYMY; WORD COLLOCATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33646038565     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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