Investigating external corpus and clickthrough statistics for query expansion in the legal domain

  • Authors:
  • Tonya Custis;Khalid Al-Kofahi

  • Affiliations:
  • Thomson Reuters, St. Paul, MN, USA;Thomson Reuters, St. Paul, MN, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We apply language modeling keyword search augmented with Berger and Lafferty's (1999) translation model for query expansion to formulate three query expansion methods using word co-occurrence statistics from a large external corpus and user clickthrough data. We study the performance of these methods on a vertical domain (case law documents) using standard metrics and an evaluation framework designed specifically to measure the performance of query expansion under varying degrees of query-document term mismatch.