A term dependency-based approach for query terms ranking

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1267-1276

  Lee, Chia Jung ^a   Chen, Ruey Cheng ^a   Kao, Shao Hang ^a   Cheng, Pu Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Query formulation; Query term combination; Query terms ranking

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC RETRIEVAL TASKS; INFORMATION NEED; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY FORMULATION; QUERY TERMS; RANKING APPROACH; REGRESSION MODEL; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TERM DEPENDENCY; TEXT SEGMENTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 74549132531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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