A survey of automatic query expansion in information retrieval

C Carpineto, G Romano - Acm Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2012 - dl.acm.org
The relative ineffectiveness of information retrieval systems is largely caused by the
inaccuracy with which a query formed by a few keywords models the actual user information …

Personalised information retrieval: survey and classification

MR Ghorab, D Zhou, A O'connor, V Wade - User Modeling and User …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Information Retrieval (IR) systems assist users in finding information from the
myriad of information resources available on the Web. A traditional characteristic of IR …

Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation

CLA Clarke, M Kolla, GV Cormack… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval
systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly …

Pseudo-relevance feedback for multiple representation dense retrieval

X Wang, C Macdonald, N Tonellotto… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Pseudo-relevance feedback mechanisms, from Rocchio to the relevance models, have
shown the usefulness of expanding and reweighting the users' initial queries using …

Terrier information retrieval platform

I Ounis, G Amati, V Plachouras, B He… - Advances in Information …, 2005 - Springer
Terrier is a modular platform for the rapid development of large-scale Information Retrieval
(IR) applications. It can index various document collections, including TREC and Web …

ColBERT-PRF: Semantic pseudo-relevance feedback for dense passage and document retrieval

X Wang, C Macdonald, N Tonellotto… - ACM Transactions on the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Pseudo-relevance feedback mechanisms, from Rocchio to the relevance models, have
shown the usefulness of expanding and reweighting the users' initial queries using …

[書籍][B] Estimating the query difficulty for information retrieval

D Carmel, E Yom-Tov - 2010 - books.google.com
Many information retrieval (IR) systems suffer from a radical variance in performance when
responding to users' queries. Even for systems that succeed very well on average, the …

Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on wikipedia

Y Xu, GJF Jones, B Wang - Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be e® ective in
many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from …

Inferring query performance using pre-retrieval predictors

B He, I Ounis - International symposium on string processing and …, 2004 - Springer
The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information
Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time …

Learning to estimate query difficulty: including applications to missing content detection and distributed information retrieval

E Yom-Tov, S Fine, D Carmel, A Darlow - Proceedings of the 28th annual …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
In this article we present novel learning methods for estimating the quality of results returned
by a search engine in response to a query. Estimation is based on the agreement between …