Exploring criteria for successful query expansion in the genomic domain

Information Retrieval

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-50

  Stokes, Nicola ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Cavedon, Lawrence ^a   Zobel, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concept based normalisation passage ranking; Corpus based query expansion; Knowledge based query expansion; Passage retrieval for genomic queries; Pseudo relevance feedback; TREC 2006 Genomics Track

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149237023     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-008-9073-9     Document Type: Article

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