Information retrieval: data structures and algorithms
Information retrieval: data structures and algorithms
Query expansion using lexical-semantic relations
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
From highly relevant to not relevant: examining different regions of relevance
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Modern Information Retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum
Query Expansion by Mining User Logs
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
The interaction of knowledge sources in word sense disambiguation
Computational Linguistics
Unsupervised learning of the morphology of a natural language
Computational Linguistics
A survey on the use of relevance feedback for information access systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Understanding user goals in web search
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Dependence language model for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information retrieval using word senses: root sense tagging approach
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An effective approach to document retrieval via utilizing WordNet and recognizing phrases
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A Comparative Evaluation of Term Weighting Methods for Information Filtering
DEXA '04 Proceedings of the Database and Expert Systems Applications, 15th International Workshop
Automatic identification of non-compositional phrases
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Classification of user image descriptions
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Integrating word relationships into language models
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
Word sense disambiguation in queries
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query expansion using random walk models
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Disambiguating Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Using Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences
Computational Linguistics
In search of query patterns: a case study of a university OPAC
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Evaluating WordNet-based Measures of Lexical Semantic Relatedness
Computational Linguistics
Similarity of Semantic Relations
Computational Linguistics
Improving query precision using semantic expansion
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A review of ontology based query expansion
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Personalized query expansion for the web
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Investigating the querying and browsing behavior of advanced search engine users
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Latent concept expansion using markov random fields
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Context sensitive stemming for web search
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Understanding the relationship of information need specificity to search query length
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Lexical analysis for modeling web query reformulation
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving weak ad-hoc queries using wikipedia asexternal corpus
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A syntactically-based query reformulation technique for information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Unsupervised acquisition of predominant word senses
Computational Linguistics
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Search characteristics in different types of Web-based IR environments: Are they the same?
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Introduction to Information Retrieval
The importance of syntactic parsing and inference in semantic role labeling
Computational Linguistics
Exploring Query Formulation and Reformulation: A Preliminary Study to Map Users' Search Behaviour
ECDL '08 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Two-stage query segmentation for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
WordNet: similarity - measuring the relatedness of concepts
AAAI'04 Proceedings of the 19th national conference on Artifical intelligence
UMND1: unsupervised word sense disambiguation using contextual semantic relatedness
SemEval '07 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the web: The interactive information retrieval context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Automatic morphological query expansion using analogy-based machine learning
ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
Viewing term proximity from a different perspective
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
An evaluation and analysis of incorporating term dependency for ad-hoc retrieval
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Evaluating verbose query processing techniques
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query expansion of zero-hit subject searches: using a thesaurus in conjunction with NLP techniques
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Using Google™ facets as implicit feedback for query expansion in database searching
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
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The availability of an abundance of knowledge sources has spurred a large amount of effort in the development and enhancement of Information Retrieval techniques. Users' information needs are expressed in natural language and successful retrieval is very much dependent on the effective communication of the intended purpose. Natural language queries consist of multiple linguistic features which serve to represent the intended search goal. Linguistic characteristics that cause semantic ambiguity and misinterpretation of queries as well as additional factors such as the lack of familiarity with the search environment affect the users' ability to accurately represent their information needs, coined by the concept "intention gap". The latter directly affects the relevance of the returned search results which may not be to the users' satisfaction and therefore is a major issue impacting the effectiveness of information retrieval systems. Central to our discussion is the identification of the significant constituents that characterize the query intent and their enrichment through the addition of meaningful terms, phrases or even latent representations, either manually or automatically to capture their intended meaning. Specifically, we discuss techniques to achieve the enrichment and in particular those utilizing the information gathered from statistical processing of term dependencies within a document corpus or from external knowledge sources such as ontologies. We lay down the anatomy of a generic linguistic based query expansion framework and propose its module-based decomposition, covering topical issues from query processing, information retrieval, computational linguistics and ontology engineering. For each of the modules we review state-of-the-art solutions in the literature categorized and analyzed under the light of the techniques used.