Selecting query term alterations for web search by exploiting query contexts

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 148-155

  Cao, Guihong ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^b   Nie, Jian Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; QUERY CONTEXT; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY TERMS; REGRESSION MODEL; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; TREC COLLECTION; WEB SEARCHES; WORD-STEMMING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 67650698476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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