Probabilistic query expansion using query logs

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '02

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 325-332

  Cui, Hang ^a   Wen, Ji Rong ^b   Nie, Jian Yun ^c   Ma, Wei Ying ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Log mining; Probabilistic model; Query expansion; Search engine

Indexed keywords

EXISTING METHOD; HIGH QUALITY; LOG MINING; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY LOGS; QUERY TERMS; SEARCH PERFORMANCE; USER INTERACTION; WEB-SEARCHING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SERVICES;

EXPANSION;

EID: 67650033440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/511446.511489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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