A re-examination of relevance: toward a dynamic, situational definition
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Use of syntactic context to produce term association lists for text retrieval
SIGIR '92 Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Numerical recipes in C (2nd ed.): the art of scientific computing
Numerical recipes in C (2nd ed.): the art of scientific computing
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using WordNet to disambiguate word senses for text retrieval
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query expansion using lexical-semantic relations
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th 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
A cooccurrence-based thesaurus and two applications to information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information retrieval as statistical translation
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A general language model for information retrieval (poster abstract)
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Relevance based language models
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Model-based feedback in the language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Personalized web search by mapping user queries to categories
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Augmenting Naive Bayes Classifiers with Statistical Language Models
Information Retrieval
Unsupervised word sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Dependence language model for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Better than the real thing?: iterative pseudo-query processing using cluster-based language models
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Context-sensitive information retrieval using implicit feedback
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Linear discriminant model for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Integrating word relationships into language models
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A Markov random field model for term dependencies
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Maximal termsets as a query structuring mechanism
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query enrichment for web-query classification
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Query expansion with terms selected using lexical cohesion analysis of documents
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Using query contexts in information retrieval
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Investigating retrieval performance with manually-built topic models
Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video, and Sound)
Personalized search results with user interest hierarchies learnt from bookmarks
WebKDD'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Knowledge Discovery on the Web: advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis
An evaluation of entity and frequency based query completion methods
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Multiple approaches to analysing query diversity
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Exploring two biomedical text genres for disease recognition
BioNLP '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing
A query model based on normalized log-likelihood
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Investigating the Semantic Gap through Query Log Analysis
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
Personalized web search using context enhanced query
CompSysTech '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies and Workshop for PhD Students in Computing
Conceptual language models for domain-specific retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A cross-lingual framework for monolingual biomedical information retrieval
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query phrase expansion using wikipedia in patent class search
AIRS'11 Proceedings of the 7th Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
A novel neighborhood based document smoothing model for information retrieval
Information Retrieval
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In current IR approaches documents are retrieved only according to the terms specified in the query. The same answers are returned for the same query whatever the user and the search goal are. In reality, many other contextual factors strongly influence document's relevance and they should be taken into account in IR operations. This paper proposes a method, based on language modeling, to integrate several contextual factors so that document ranking will be adapted to the specific query contexts. We will consider three contextual factors in this paper: the topic domain of the query, the characteristics of the document collection, as well as context words within the query. Each contextual factor is used to generate a new query language model to specify some aspect of the information need. All these query models are then combined together to produce a more complete model for the underlying information need. Our experiments on TREC collections show that each contextual factor can positively influence the IR effectiveness and the combined model results in the highest effectiveness. This study shows that it is both beneficial and feasible to integrate more contextual factors in the current IR practice.