LambdaMerge: Merging the results of query reformulations

Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 795-804

  Sheldon, Daniel ^a   Shokouhi, Milad ^b   Szummer, Martin ^b   Craswell, Nick ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

LambdaMerge; Learning to rank; Query expansion; Query reformulation

Indexed keywords

LAMBDAMERGE; LEARNING TO RANK; MULTIPLE QUERIES; PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY REFORMULATION; RANDOM WALK; TOPIC DRIFT; USER QUERY;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MERGING;

EID: 79952401779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935826.1935930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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