An evaluation of query processing strategies using the TIPSTER collection
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
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
Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data
ICML '01 Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Use of support vector learning for chunk identification
ConLL '00 Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Learning language in logic and the 4th conference on Computational natural language learning - Volume 7
Improved automatic keyword extraction given more linguistic knowledge
EMNLP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
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
Analysis of long queries in a large scale search log
Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Web Search Click Data
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice
Named entity recognition in query
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
Introducing the user-over-ranking hypothesis
ECIR'11 Proceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval
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
Applying the user-over-ranking hypothesis to query formulation
ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
Quantifying the impact of concept recognition on biomedical information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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
Known-item video search via query-to-modality mapping
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
News contextualization with geographic and visual information
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Data mining for improving textbooks
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Natural language technology and query expansion: issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Generating queries from user-selected text
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Automatically mining question reformulation patterns from search log data
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
A scalable approach for performing proximal search for verbose patent search queries
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Compact query term selection using topically related text
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Interpretation of coordinations, compound generation, and result fusion for query variants
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Building a web test collection using social media
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Enhancing news organization for convenient retrieval and browsing
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Structured positional entity language model for enterprise entity retrieval
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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Verbose or long queries are a small but significant part of the query stream in web search, and are common in other applications such as collaborative question answering (CQA). Current search engines perform well with keyword queries but are not, in general, effective for verbose queries. In this paper, we examine query processing techniques which can be applied to verbose queries prior to submission to a search engine in order to improve the search engine's results. We focus on verbose queries that have sentence-like structure, but are not simple "wh-" questions, and assume the search engine is a "black box." We evaluated the output of two search engines using queries from a CQA service and our results show that, among a broad range of techniques, the most effective approach is to simply reduce the length of the query. This can be achieved effectively by removing "stop structure" instead of only stop words. We show that the process of learning and removing stop structure from a query can be effectively automated.