I3R: a new approach to the design of document retrieval systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Towards interactive query expansion
SIGIR '88 Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query expansion using local and global document analysis
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The potential and actual effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An Algorithm that Learns What‘s in a Name
Machine Learning - Special issue on natural language learning
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The paraphrase search assistant: terminological feedback for iterative information seeking
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using clustering and SuperConcepts within SMART: TREC 6
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - The sixth text REtrieval conference (TREC-6)
Relevance based language models
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Introduction to Algorithms
Characteristics of question format web queries: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Constructing Web search queries from the user's information need expressed in a natural language
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The NRRC reliable information access (RIA) workshop
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using top-ranking sentences to facilitate effective information access: Book Reviews
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Active feedback in ad hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
ACM SIGIR Forum
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On GMAP: and other transformations
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Ranking robustness: a novel framework to predict query performance
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query performance prediction in web search environments
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A term dependency-based approach for query terms ranking
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Selecting Effective Terms for Query Formulation
AIRS '09 Proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium on Information Retrieval Technology
When is system support effective?
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Introducing the user-over-ranking hypothesis
ECIR'11 Proceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Applying the user-over-ranking hypothesis to query formulation
ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
Generating queries from user-selected text
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
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Users enter queries that are short as well as long. The aim of this work is to evaluate techniques that can enable information retrieval (IR) systems to automatically adapt to perform better on such queries. By adaptation we refer to (1) modifications to the queries via user interaction, and (2) detecting that the original query is not a good candidate for modification. We show that the former has the potential to improve mean average precision (MAP) of long and short queries by 40% and 30% respectively, and that simple user interaction can help towards this goal. We observed that after inspecting the options presented to them, users frequently did not select any. We present techniques in this paper to determine beforehand the utility of user interaction to avoid this waste of time and effort. We show that our techniques can provide IR systems with the ability to detect and avoid interaction for unpromising queries without a significant drop in overall performance.