Building simulated queries for known-item topics: An analysis using six european languages

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 455-462

  Azzopardi, Leif ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^b   Balog, Krisztian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multilingual retrieval; Query generation; Query simulation

Indexed keywords

MULTILINGUAL RETRIEVAL; QUERY GENERATION; QUERY SIMULATION; REAL QUERIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; USER INTERFACES;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 36448960824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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