Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography
Computational Linguistics
Viewing morphology as an inference process
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
TREC and TIPSTER experiments with INQUERY
TREC-2 Proceedings of the second conference on Text retrieval conference
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Making large-scale support vector machine learning practical
Advances in kernel methods
Information Retrieval
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using web-graph distance for relevance feedback in web search
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On ranking the effectiveness of searches
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Ranking robustness: a novel framework to predict query performance
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Incorporating non-local information into information extraction systems by Gibbs sampling
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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
Discovering key concepts in verbose queries
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
To swing or not to swing: learning when (not) to advertise
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
A survey of pre-retrieval query performance predictors
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition
Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition
Effective pre-retrieval query performance prediction using similarity and variability evidence
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Using coherence-based measures to predict query difficulty
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Learning concept importance using a weighted dependence model
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Query reformulation using anchor text
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Exploring web scale language models for search query processing
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Evaluating verbose query processing techniques
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Exploring reductions for long web queries
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning to rank query reformulations
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query term ranking based on dependency parsing of verbose queries
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An analysis of queries intended to search information for children
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Mining Historic Query Trails to Label Long and Rare Search Engine Queries
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
LambdaMerge: merging the results of query reformulations
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Key concepts identification and weighting in search engine queries
APWeb'11 Proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web technologies and applications
The limits of retrieval effectiveness
ECIR'11 Proceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Joint annotation of search queries
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Parameterized concept weighting in verbose queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Synthesizing high utility suggestions for rare web search queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Automatic boolean query suggestion for professional search
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Modeling subset distributions for verbose queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Tossing coins to trim long queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development 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
Navigating the user query space
SPIRE'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval
A quasi-synchronous dependence model for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Enriching textbooks with images
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
News contextualization with geographic and visual information
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Random selection assisted long web search query optimization
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
Rewriting null e-commerce queries to recommend products
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Learning to extract coherent keyphrases from online news
AIRS'11 Proceedings of the 7th Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
Interactive search support for difficult web queries
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Generating reformulation trees for complex queries
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Modeling higher-order term dependencies in information retrieval using query hypergraphs
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Generating queries from user-selected text
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Supporting children's web search in school environments
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Cache-Based Query Processing for Search Engines
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Query by babbling: a research agenda
Proceedings of the first workshop on Information and knowledge management for developing region
A discriminative model for query spelling correction with latent structural SVM
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Supporting factual statements with evidence from the web
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Graph-based concept weighting for medical information retrieval
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
ER'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Ontology-based personalised retrieval in support of reminiscence
Knowledge-Based Systems
Leading people to longer queries
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Compact query term selection using topically related text
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
LAICOS: an open source platform for personalized social web search
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Enhancing news organization for convenient retrieval and browsing
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Mining pure high-order word associations via information geometry for information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Entity-centric document filtering: boosting feature mapping through meta-features
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
On segmentation of eCommerce queries
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Detecting verbose queries and improving information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones that lack those extraneous terms. Our work is motivated by the observation that perfectly reducing long TREC description queries can lead to an average improvement of 30% in mean average precision. Our approach involves transforming the reduction problem into a problem of learning to rank all sub-sets of the original query (sub-queries) based on their predicted quality, and selecting the top sub-query. We use various measures of query quality described in the literature as features to represent sub-queries, and train a classifier. Replacing the original long query with the top-ranked sub-query chosen by the ranker results in a statistically significant average improvement of 8% on our test sets. Analysis of the results shows that query reduction is well-suited for moderately-performing long queries, and a small set of query quality predictors are well-suited for the task of ranking sub-queries.