The importance of anchor text for ad hoc search revisited

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 122-129

  Koolen, Marijn ^a   Kamps, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ad hoc; Anchor text; Collection size; Link density

Indexed keywords

AD HOC; AD HOC RETRIEVAL; COLLECTION SIZE; DOWNSAMPLING; FULL-TEXT SEARCH; LINK DENSITY; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH TASKS; TEXT RETRIEVAL; WEB COLLECTIONS; WEB RETRIEVAL; WEB SEARCHES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77956053511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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