Adapting information retrieval to query contexts

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1901-1922

  Bai, Jing ^a   Nie, Jian Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Context; Context dependent relation; Information retrieval; Language modeling; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

CONTEXT; CONTEXT-DEPENDENT RELATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE MODELING; QUERY EXPANSION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 53849093028     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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