Mining dependency relations for query expansion in passage retrieval

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 382-389

  Sun, Renxu ^a   Ong, Chai Huat ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dependency parsing; Passage retrieval; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUERY LANGUAGES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MESSAGE PASSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DEPENDENCY PARSING; LOCAL CONTEXT ANALYSIS (LCA); PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY EXPANSION; DEPENDENCY PARSINGS; PASSAGE RETRIEVALS; QUERY EXPANSIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 33750300535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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