A study of the effect of term proximity on query expansion

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-333

  Vechtomova, Olga ^a,c   Wang, Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Toshiba of Canada Limited   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Mutual information; Query expansion; Term proximity; Word collocation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WINDOWS;

MUTUAL INFORMATION; QUERY EXPANSION; TERM PROXIMITY; WORD COLLOCATION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 33748574510     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506065787     Document Type: Article

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