Semantic term matching in axiomatic approaches to information retrieval

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 115-122

  Fang, Hui ^a   Zhai, ChengXiang ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Axiomatic model; Constraints; Feedback; Query expansion; Retrieval heuristics

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PATTERN MATCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY PROCESSING;

AXIOMATIC MODEL; DOCUMENT SETS; QUERY EXPANSION; RETRIEVAL HEURISTICS; SEMANTIC TERM MATCHING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750319843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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