Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 688-695

  Bai, Jing ^a   Song, Dawei ^b   Bruza, Peter ^c   Nie, Jian Yun ^a   Cao, Guihong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information flow; Language model; Query expansion; Term relationships

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION FLOW; LANGUAGE MODEL; QUERY EXPANSION; TERM RELATIONSHIPS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 33745802837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099554.1099725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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