Improved query difficulty prediction for the web

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 439-448

  Hauff, Claudia ^a   Murdock, Vanessa ^b   Baeza Yates, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Query clarity; Query performance prediction

Indexed keywords

PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; QUERY CLARITY; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS; SEARCH TERMS; SPONSORED RESULTS; STATE OF THE ART; WEB COLLECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 70349231601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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