Improving weak ad-hoc queries using wikipedia asexternal corpus

  • Authors:
  • Yinghao Li;Wing Pong Robert Luk;Kei Shiu Edward Ho;Fu Lai Korris Chung

  • Affiliations:
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In an ad-hoc retrieval task, the query is usually short and the user expects to find the relevant documents in the first several result pages. We explored the possibilities of using Wikipedia's articles as an external corpus to expand ad-hoc queries. Results show promising improvements over measures that emphasize on weak queries.