Exploring reductions for long web queries

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 571-578

  Balasubramanian, Niranjan ^a   Kumaran, Giridhar ^b   Carvalho, Vitor R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining searches; Learning to rank; Query reformulation

Indexed keywords

COMBINING SEARCHES; LEARNING FORMULATION; LEARNING TO RANK; LONG QUERIES; QUERY PERFORMANCE; QUERY REFORMULATION; QUERY TERMS; RANKING ALGORITHM; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; TREC COLLECTION; WEB SEARCH ENGINES;

SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SERVICES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77956053140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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