Query reformulation, search performance and term suggestion devices in question-answering tasks

IIiX'08: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-26

  Liu, Ying Hsang ^a   Belkin, Nicholas J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context within query; Query expansion; Query reformulation; Question answering tasks

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY;

CONTEXT ANALYSIS; CONTEXT WITHIN QUERY; DATA SETS; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVALS; INTERACTIVE TRACKS; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY REFORMULATION; QUESTION-ANSWERING TASKS; RELEVANCE FEEDBACKS; RUTGERS; SEARCH PERFORMANCE; SEMANTIC CONTENTS; SYSTEM ADAPTATIONS; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TERM SUGGESTIONS; USER QUERIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 62949229241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414694.1414702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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