Lexical query modeling in session search

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2016
Book title ICTIR'16
Book subtitle proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval : September 12-16, 2016, Newark, Delaware, USA
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781450344975
Event ICTIR '16 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
Pages (from-to) 69-72
Publisher New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract Lexical query modeling has been the leading paradigm for session search. In this paper, we analyze TREC session query logs and compare the performance of different lexical matching approaches for session search. Naive methods based on term frequency weighing perform on par with specialized session models. In addition, we investigate the viability of lexical query models in the setting of session search. We give important insights into the potential and limitations of lexical query modeling for session search and propose future directions for the field of session search.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1145/2970398.2970422
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