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Much current research in IR, Web-Search and Semantic-Web technologies aims at enriching the user query to gain a richer, more semantic understanding of the information need. Almost in all cases this query enrichment step is approached independently of the ranking function; however, this may be far from optimal. In this paper we discuss the problem of term dependency in the context of query expansion and show its dangers in a number of empirical evaluations. Furthermore we propose a simple method (query clauses) that can be applied to several standard ranking functions to exploit a simple type of term dependency.
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Pérez-Agüera, J.R., Zaragoza, H. (2009). Query Clauses and Term Independence. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. CLEF 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_17
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