A syntactically-based query reformulation technique for information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-162

  Lioma, C ^a   Ounis, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Part of speech blocks (POS blocks); Part of speech tagging; Pseudo relevance feedback; Query reformulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

PART OF SPEECH BLOCKS; PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; QUERY REFORMULATION; SPEECH TAGGING;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 35548957766     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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