High performance query expansion using adaptive co-training

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 441-453

  Huang, Jimmy Xiangji ^a   Miao, Jun ^a   He, Ben ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co training; Query expansion; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CO-TRAINING; FEEDBACK DOCUMENTS; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; QUALITY OF FEEDBACKS; QUERY EXPANSION; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; TRAINING DOCUMENTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84886382572     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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