The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Improving the effectiveness of information retrieval with local context analysis
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Agglomerative clustering of a search engine query log
Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Clustering user queries of a search engine
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Relevance based language models
Proceedings of the 24th 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
Analysis of anchor text for web search
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Distributional clustering of English words
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Similarity-based estimation of word cooccurrence probabilities
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Mining anchor text for query refinement
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Generating query substitutions
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning a spelling error model from search query logs
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Context sensitive stemming for web search
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th 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
Analyzing web text association to disambiguate abbreviation in queries
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mining term association patterns from search logs for effective query reformulation
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice
A statistical comparison of tag and query logs
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query recommendation using query logs in search engines
EDBT'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Current Trends in Database Technology
Learning to rank query reformulations
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Validating query simulators: an experiment using commercial searches and purchases
CLEF'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation: cross-language evaluation forum
LambdaMerge: merging the results of query reformulations
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Synthesizing high utility suggestions for rare web search queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Simulation of within-session query variations using a text segmentation approach
CLEF'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation
Using query log and social tagging to refine queries based on latent topics
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Inferring query aspects from reformulations using clustering
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query suggestion by constructing term-transition graphs
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Learning from users' querying experience on intranets
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Adaptation of the concept hierarchy model with search logs for query recommendation on intranets
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Adaptive query suggestion for difficult queries
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Diversity by proportionality: an election-based approach to search result diversification
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Combining implicit and explicit topic representations for result diversification
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Domain dependent query reformulation for web search
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Contextual evaluation of query reformulations in a search session by user simulation
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Robust query rewriting using anchor data
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Modeling reformulation using query distributions
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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Retrieving opinions from discussion forums
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
When do people use query suggestion? A query suggestion log analysis
Information Retrieval
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Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have been studied as a method of capturing user intent and improving retrieval effectiveness. The evaluation of these techniques has primarily, however, focused on proprietary query logs and selected samples of queries. In this paper, we suggest that anchor text, which is readily available, can be an effective substitute for a query log and study the effectiveness of a range of query reformulation techniques (including log-based stemming, substitution, and expansion) using standard TREC collections. Our results show that log-based query reformulation techniques are indeed effective with standard collections, but expansion is a much safer form of query modification than word substitution. We also show that using anchor text as a simulated query log is as least as effective as a real log for these techniques.