Effective query formulation with multiple information sources

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 443-452

  Bendersky, Michael ^a   Metzler, Donald ^b   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

External sources; Query expansion; Query formulation

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EXTERNAL SOURCES; INFORMATION SOURCES; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY FORMULATION; SINGLE SOURCE; STANDARD INFORMATION; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; WEB CORPORA; WEIGHTING METHODS;

DATA MINING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84858046897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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