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Evaluating the Potential of Explicit Phrases for Retrieval Quality

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010)

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This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and system-identified phrases with a standard score and a proximity-aware score, and shows that an optimal choice of phrases, including term permutations, can significantly improve query performance.

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  1. Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Andreas Broschart & Ralf Schenkel

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Andreas Broschart, Klaus Berberich & Ralf Schenkel

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Adaptive Information Cluster, Dublin City University, Dublin, 9, Ireland

    Cathal Gurrin

  2. The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6HF, Milton Keynes, UK

    Yulan He

  3. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FB, Cambridge, UK

    Gabriella Kazai

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, Colchester, UK

    Udo Kruschwitz

  5. The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK

    Suzanne Little

  6. University of London, London, UK

    Thomas Roelleke

  7. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Stefan Rüger

  8. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Keith van Rijsbergen

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Broschart, A., Berberich, K., Schenkel, R. (2010). Evaluating the Potential of Explicit Phrases for Retrieval Quality. In: Gurrin, C., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5993. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_62

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