Name
Abstract | ||
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In information retrieval, queries can fail to find documents due to mismatch in terminology. Query expansion is a well-known technique addressing this problem, where additional query terms are automatically chosen from highly ranked documents, and it has been shown to be effective at improving query performance. However, current techniques for query expansion use fixed values for key parameters, determined by tuning on test collections. In this paper we show that these parameters may not be generally applicable, and more significantly that the assumption that the same parameter settings can be used for all queries is invalid. Using detailed experiments with two test collections, we demonstrate that new methods for choosing parameters must be found. However, our experiments also demonstrate that there is considerable further scope for improvement to effectiveness through better query expansion. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
2004 | ADC | better query expansion,test collection,additional query term,information retrieval,query performance,current technique,key parameter,detailed experiment,new method,query expansion,search engine,search engines |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Query optimization,Web search query,Data mining,Query language,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Computer science,Sargable,Web query classification,Ranking (information retrieval),Spatial query,Database | Conference | 38 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
1.87 | 25 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bodo Billerbeck | 1 | 272 | 14.24 |
| Justin Zobel | 2 | 6882 | 880.46 |