Managing word mismatch problems in information retrieval: A topic-based query expansion approach

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 269-295

  Wei, Chih Ping ^a   Hu, Paul Jen Hwa ^b   Tai, Chia Hung ^c   Huang, Chun Neng ^d   Yang, Chin Sheng ^e  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^d Asiatek Taiwan ^*  (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Document clustering; Fuzzy clustering; Information retrieval; Query expansion; Text mining; Topic based query expansion; Word mismatch

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; QUERY PROCESSING; TEXT PROCESSING;

DOCUMENT CLUSTERING; QUERY EXPANSION; TOPIC-BASED QUERY EXPANSION; WORD MISMATCH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 39749177788     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222240309     Document Type: Article

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