A simple way of improving traditional IR methods by structuring queries
| Authors |
Markus Mittendorfer Werner Winiwarter |
| Title | A simple way of improving traditional IR methods by structuring queries |
| Booktitle | Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE-SMC 2001) |
| Type | in proceedings |
| Address | Tucson, AZ, USA |
| Month | October |
| Year | 2001 |
| Pages | 951-953 |
| Abstract | The traditional vector space model of IR treats a query as a structureless whole, a "bag of words", thus failing to capture many finer points. We propose an algorithm that breaks a query up into smaller units, does retrieval on these, and then combines the results, thereby respecting some of the query structure. Experimental results for a standard test collection are given and discussed. |