The loquacious user: A document-independent source of terms for query expansion

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 457-464

  Kelly, Diane ^a   Dollu, Vijay Deepak ^a   Fu, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

clarification form; elicitation; information need; polyrepresentation; problem description; query expansion; query length; user feedback

Indexed keywords

ELICITATION; INFORMATION NEED; POLYREPRESENTATION; PROBLEM DESCRIPTION; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY LENGTHS; USER FEEDBACK;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EXPANSION;

EID: 84885620555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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