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Evaluating Topic Difficulties from the Viewpoint of Query Term Expansion

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2006)

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Query term expansion is an important technique for achieving higher retrieval performance. However, since many factors affects the quality of this technique, it is difficult to evaluate this technique in isolation. Feature quantities that characterize the quality of the initial query are defined in this study for evaluating topic difficulties from the viewpoint of query term expansion. I also briefly review the result of the NTCIR-5 query term expansion subtask that uses these quantities for evaluating the effectiveness of the query term expansion techniques. I also describe detailed analysis results on the effect of query term expansion based on topic-by-topic analysis.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N-14 W-9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0814, Japan

    Masaharu Yoshioka

  2. National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8430, Japan

    Masaharu Yoshioka

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, 117543, Singapore

    Hwee Tou Ng

  2. Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, 119613, Singapore

    Mun-Kew Leong

  3. Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore

    Min-Yen Kan

  4. Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, P.O. Box, 119613, Singapore

    Donghong Ji

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Yoshioka, M. (2006). Evaluating Topic Difficulties from the Viewpoint of Query Term Expansion. In: Ng, H.T., Leong, MK., Kan, MY., Ji, D. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11880592_30

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