Improving retrieval of short texts through document expansion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 911-920

  Efron, Miles ^a   Organisciak, Peter ^a   Fenlon, Katrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

document expansion; dublin core; information retrieval; language models; microblogs; temporal IR; twitter

Indexed keywords

DUBLIN CORE; EXPANSION METHODS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MICRO-BLOG; MICROBLOGS; NUMBER AND SIZE; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TERM FREQUENCY; TWITTER;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; METADATA; RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84866635150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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