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Query expansion using local and global document analysis
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Automatic query expansion has long been suggested as a technique for dealing with the fundamental issue of word mismatch in information retrieval.A number of approaches to ezpanrnion have been studied and, more recently, attention has focused on techniques that analyze the corpus to discover word relationship (global techniques) and those that analyze documents retrieved by the initial quer~( local feedback).In this paper, we compare the effectiveness of these approaches and show that, although global analysis haa some advantages, local analysia is generally more effective.We also show that using global analysis techniques, such as word contezt and phrase structure, on the local aet of documents produces results that are both more effective and more predictable than simple local feedback.
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“It typically expands the original query by adding terms from, for instance, dictionaries of synonyms such as WordNet (Miller, 1995), or from the initial set of retrieved documents (Xu and Croft, 1996).”
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- Xu, J., & Croft, W. B.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '96
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- ACM Press
- Published
- 1996
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- 4-11
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- W4231856373
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- 16.49
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- conference paper
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- en
- Open access
- bronze
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