Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 991-994

  Wang, Xuanhui ^a   Fang, Hui ^b   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficult queries; Language modeling; Negative feedback

Indexed keywords

DIFFICULT QUERIES; LANGUAGE MODELING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NON-RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; RETRIEVAL ACCURACIES; SEARCH ACCURACIES; SEARCH RESULTS; TEST COLLECTIONS; TREC COLLECTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 57349104886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321440.1321593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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