Passage-Based Query Refinement (MultiText Experiments for TREC-6).

Cormack, Gordon V.; Clarke, Charles L. A.; Palmer, Christopher R.; To, Samuel S. L.

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Publication Date: 2000

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Passage-Based Query Refinement (MultiText Experiments for TREC-6).

Cormack, Gordon V.; Clarke, Charles L. A.; Palmer, Christopher R.; To, Samuel S. L.

Information Processing & Management, v36 n1 p133-53 Jan 2000

Describes the MultiText information retrieval system that finds arbitrary passages of text, as opposed to complete documents, that are likely to be relevant. Discusses relevance ranking, term expansion, interactive user interface, and distributed searching used in experiments for TREC-6 (Text Retrieval Conference) in the ad hoc, high precision, and Chinese tracks. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Chinese, Computer Interfaces, Conferences, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms

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Language: English

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