Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 243-250

  Cao, Guihong ^a   Nie, Jian Yun ^a   Gao, Jianfeng ^b   Robertson, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expansion term classification; Language models; Pseudo relevance feedback; SVM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTROL THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

FEEDBACK DOCUMENTS; LANGUAGE MODELS; PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RELEVANCE FEEDBACKS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESSES; SVM; TERM CLASSIFICATIONS; TREC COLLECTIONS;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 57349144427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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