A survey of automatic query expansion in information retrieval

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Carpineto, Claudio ^a   Romano, Giovanni ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Document ranking; Pseudo relevance feedback; Query expansion; Query refinement; Search; Word associations

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT RANKING; PSEUDO RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY REFINEMENT; SEARCH; WORD ASSOCIATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SURVEYS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84857617983     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2071389.2071390     Document Type: Article

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