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This report describes our participation in the Snippet retrieval track. Snippets were constructed by first selecting sentences according to the occurrence of query terms. We also used a pseudo-relevance feedback approach in order to expand the original query. Results showed that a large number of extra terms may harm sentence selection for short summaries. However, simple heuristics that employ query term occurrence information can benefit considerably sentence retrieval.
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Leal Bando, L., Scholer, F., Thom, J. (2012). RMIT at INEX 2011 Snippet Retrieval Track. In: Geva, S., Kamps, J., Schenkel, R. (eds) Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure. INEX 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35734-3_29
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