A user-centered approach for evaluating query expansion methods

Jean Yves Delort

doi:10.1109/WI.2005.16

A user-centered approach for evaluating query expansion methods

Jean Yves Delort^*

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School of Computing

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Abstract

Search engines are powerful tools to find information on the Web. However, they commonly return many irrelevant documents when the users' queries are not specific enough. To refine the scope of their searches, refinement terms are sometimes recommended to the users by query expansion systems (QES). A recent wide-scale survey has shown that users seldom include these terms in their queries. In this article, we propose a new user-centric approach for evaluating QES. The purpose of our approach is to assess the suggestive power of the suggested terms. Several existing QES are compared following the proposed criteria.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM InternationalConference on Web Intelligence, WI 2005
Pages	586-589
Number of pages	4
Volume	2005
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2005.16
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2005 - Compiegne Cedex, France Duration: 19 Sept 2005 → 22 Sept 2005

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Other	2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2005
Country/Territory	France
City	Compiegne Cedex,
Period	19/09/05 → 22/09/05

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