Query-drift prevention for robust query expansion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 825-826

  Zighelnic, Liron ^a   Kurland, Oren ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fusion; Pseudo feedback; Query drift; Query expansion; Robust query expansion

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

FUSION; PSEUDO FEEDBACK; QUERY DRIFT; QUERY EXPANSION; ROBUST QUERY EXPANSION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 57349190099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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