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Investigating external corpus and clickthrough statistics for query expansion in the legal domain

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We apply language modeling keyword search augmented with Berger and Lafferty's (1999) translation model for query expansion to formulate three query expansion methods using word co-occurrence statistics from a large external corpus and user clickthrough data. We study the performance of these methods on a vertical domain (case law documents) using standard metrics and an evaluation framework designed specifically to measure the performance of query expansion under varying degrees of query-document term mismatch.

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    CIKM '08: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
    October 2008
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    ISBN:9781595939913
    DOI:10.1145/1458082
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    Published: 26 October 2008

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    1. clickthrough data
    2. query expansion
    3. query logs
    4. translation model

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    • (2019)Exploiting Search Logs to Aid in Training and Automating Infrastructure for Question Answering in Professional DomainsProceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law10.1145/3322640.3326738(93-102)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2019
    • (2011)External query reformulation for text-based image retrievalProceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval10.5555/2051073.2051097(249-260)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2011
    • (2009)Feature engineering on event-centric surrogate documents to improve search resultsProceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/1645953.1646189(1629-1632)Online publication date: 2-Nov-2009

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