Improving weak ad-hoc queries using wikipedia asexternal corpus

Yinghao Li, Wing Pong Robert Luk, Kei Shiu Edward Ho, Fu Lai Korris Chung

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Abstract

In an ad-hoc retrieval task, the query is usually short and the user expects to find the relevant documents in the first several result pages. We explored the possibilities of using Wikipedia's articles as an external corpus to expand ad-hoc queries. Results show promising improvements over measures that emphasize on weak queries.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07
Pages797-798
Number of pages2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2007
Event30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 23 Jul 200727 Jul 2007

Conference

Conference30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period23/07/0727/07/07

Keywords

  • External corpus
  • Pseudo-relevance feedback
  • Wikipedia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Software
  • Applied Mathematics

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