Query segmentation is essential to query processing. It aims to tokenize query words into several semantic segments and help the search engine to improve the precision of retrieva...
Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang, Tat-Se...
In the era of digital information, the value of data resides not only in its volume and quality, but also in the additional information that can be inferred from the combination (a...
Daniele Braga, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Michael Gr...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
For a given query raised by a specific user, the Query Suggestion technique aims to recommend relevant queries which potentially suit the information needs of that user. Due to th...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...