Compact query term selection using topically related text

SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 583-592

  Maxwell, K Tamsin ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Query Reformulation; Random Walk; Verbose Queries

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; QUERY REFORMULATION; RANDOM WALK; RANKING ALGORITHM; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; VERBOSE QUERIES; WORD CO-OCCURRENCE;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84883055978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484028.2484096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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