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Simulation of within-session query variations using a text segmentation approach

Ganguly, Debasis orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-0050-7138, Leveling, Johannes orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-0603-4191 and Jones, Gareth J.F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 (2011) Simulation of within-session query variations using a text segmentation approach. In: CLEF 2011 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, 19-22 Sept 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract
We propose a generative model for automatic query refor- mulations from an initial query using the underlying subtopic structure of top ranked retrieved documents. We address three types of query reformulations a) specialization; b) generalization; and c) drift. To test our model we generate the three reformulation variants starting with selected fields from the TREC-8 topics as the initial queries. We use manual judgments from multiple assessors to calculate the accuracy of the reformulated query variants and observe accuracies of 65%, 82% and 69% respectively for specialization, generalization and drift reformulations.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:ad-hoc queries
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16497
Deposited On:07 Oct 2011 11:00 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 25 Oct 2018 10:26
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