Exploiting external collections for query expansion

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Weerkamp, Wouter ^a   Balog, Krisztian ^b   De Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blog post retrieval; External expansion; Query modeling

Indexed keywords

BLOG POST RETRIEVAL; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; INFORMATION NEED; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY EXPANSION MODELS; RELEVANCE MODELS; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB COLLECTIONS; WIKIPEDIA;

BLOGS; EXPANSION; EXPERIMENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84870673325     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2382616.2382621     Document Type: Article

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