The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
Approaches to passage retrieval in full text information systems
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Passage-level evidence in document retrieval
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Document and passage retrieval based on hidden Markov models
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
WordNet: a lexical database for English
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Abstracting from the perspective of text production
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Passage retrieval: a probabilistic technique
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
SIGDOC '86 Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation
Automatic abstracting and indexing—survey and recommendations
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TIPSTER '98 Proceedings of a workshop on held at Baltimore, Maryland: October 13-15, 1998
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Eliciting better information need descriptions from users of information search systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Personalized query expansion for the web
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HLT '02 Proceedings of the second international conference on Human Language Technology Research
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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
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The Stanford typed dependencies representation
CrossParser '08 Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation
An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited Dependencies Language Model
ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory
Information Retrieval
Analyzing and evaluating query reformulation strategies in web search logs
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The automatic creation of literature abstracts
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Evaluating verbose query processing techniques
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
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Parameterized concept weighting in verbose queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
A Survey of Automatic Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
ACM SIGIR Forum
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Although most of the queries submitted to search engines are composed of a few keywords and have a length that ranges from three to six words, more than 15% of the total volume of the queries are verbose, introduce ambiguity and cause topic drifts. We consider verbosity a different property of queries from length since a verbose query is not necessarily long, it might be succinct and a short query might be verbose. This paper proposes a methodology to automatically detect verbose queries and conditionally modify queries. The methodology proposed in this paper exploits state-of-the-art classification algorithms, combines concepts from a large linguistic database and uses a topic gisting algorithm we designed for verbose query modification purposes. Our experimental results have been obtained using the TREC Robust track collection, thirty topics classified by difficulty degree, four queries per topic classified by verbosity and length, and human assessment of query verbosity. Our results suggest that the methodology for query modification conditioned to query verbosity detection and topic gisting is significantly effective and that query modification should be refined when topic difficulty and query verbosity are considered since these two properties interact and query verbosity is not straightforwardly related to query length.