Query expansion with long-span collocates

Information Retrieval

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-273

  Vechtomova, Olga ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^b,c   Jones, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic query expansion; Long span word collocation; Probabilistic information retrieval; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843070952     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023936321956     Document Type: Article

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