The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval.

W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle, David D. Lewis: The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval. SIGIR 1991: 32-45

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/CroftTL91,
  author    = {W. Bruce Croft and
               Howard R. Turtle and
               David D. Lewis},
  editor    = {Abraham Bookstein and
               Yves Chiaramella and
               Gerard Salton and
               Vijay V. Raghavan},
  title     = {The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
               on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Chicago,
               Illinois, USA, October 13-16, 1991 (Special Issue of the SIGIR
               Forum)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1991},
  isbn      = {0-89791-448-1},
  pages     = {32-45},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/CroftTL91.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/91},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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Abstract

Both phrases and Boolean queries have a long history in information retrieval, particularly in commercial systems. In previous work, Boolean queries have been used as a source of phrases for a statistical retrieval model. This work, like the majority of research on phrases, resulted in little improvement in retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we describe an approach where phrases identified in natural language queries are used to build structured queries for a probabilistic retrieval model. Our results show that using phrases in this way can improve performance, and that phrases that are automatically extracted from a natural language query perform nearly as well as manually selected phrases.

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Abraham Bookstein, Yves Chiaramella, Gerard Salton, Vijay V. Raghavan (Eds.): Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 13-16, 1991 (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum). ACM 1991, ISBN 0-89791-448-1
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