Adaptive query suggestion for difficult queries

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 15-24

  Liu, Yang ^a   Song, Ruihua ^b   Chen, Yu ^b   Nie, Jian Yun ^c   Wen, Ji Rong ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

adaptive query suggestion; difficult queries; query suggestion evaluation

Indexed keywords

DIFFICULT QUERIES; QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; QUERY SUGGESTION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84866599913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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