Improving verbose queries using subset distribution

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1059-1068

  Xue, Xiaobing ^a   Huston, Samuel ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional Random Field; Information retrieval; Sub query selection; Verbose query

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; HIGH QUALITY; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; QUERY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUERY SELECTION; QUERY WORDS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SUB-QUERIES; TRAINING SETS; VERBOSE QUERY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78651304246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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