Lexical cohesion and term proximity in document ranking

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1485-1502

  Vechtomova, Olga ^a   Karamuftuoglu, Murat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Lexical cohesion; Term proximity

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY PROCESSING;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; LEXICAL COHESION; SHORT-DISTANCE COLLOCATION; TERM PROXIMITY;

PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

EID: 44449158048     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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