Query modeling for entity search based on terms, categories, and examples

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Balog, Krisztian ^a   Bron, Marc ^b   De Rijke, Maarten ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entity retrieval; Generative probabilistic model; Query expansion; Query modeling

Indexed keywords

ENTITY RANKING; ENTITY RETRIEVAL; ENTITY SEARCH; GENERATIVE PROBABILISTIC MODEL; LIST COMPLETION; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY TERMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84555190544     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2037661.2037667     Document Type: Article

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