Effective query expansion for federated search

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 427-434

  Shokouhi, Milad ^a   Azzopardi, Leif ^b   Thomas, Paul ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GLOBAL EXPANSION; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY EXPANSION TECHNIQUES; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SEARCH SYSTEM; USER INTERACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; RESEARCH;

EXPANSION;

EID: 72449201594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1572015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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