Query expansion with terms selected using lexical cohesion analysis of documents

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 849-865

  Vechtomova, Olga ^a   Karamuftuoglu, Murat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Interactive information retrieval; Lexical cohesion; Query expansion; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FEEDBACK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEXICAL COHESION; QUERY EXPANSION; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947146301     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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