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Processing queries in session in a quantum-inspired IR framework

  • Ingo Frommholz
    ,
  • Benjamin Piwowarski
    ,
  • Mounia Lalmas
    ,
  • Keith Van Rijsbergen
  • University of Glasgow
    ,
  • Yahoo Research Labs
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Abstract

In a search session, users tend to reformulate their queries, for instance because they want to generalise or specify them, or because they are undergoing a drift in their information need. This motivates to regard queries not in isolation, but within the session they are embedded in. In this poster, we propose an approach inspired by quantum mechanics to represent queries and their reformulations as density operators. Differently constructed densities can potentially be applied for different types of query reformulation. To do so, we propose and discuss indicators that can hint us to the type of query reformulation we are dealing with.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Conference contribution
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 751-754

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2011

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2011

Publisher

Springer, Japan, India, Australia, Germany, United States, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, China, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Brazil, France, Singapore

ISBN (Print)

9783642201608

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/275699
  • Scopus: 84963759447

Host publication title

Advances in information retrieval : lecture notes in computer science volume 6611

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Related Event

Title

33rd European Conference on IR Resarch, ECIR 2011

Description

33rd European Conference on IR Resarch, ECIR 2011 (18/04/2011-21/04/2011, Dublin)

Event type

Conference

Date

18/04/2011 - 21/04/2011

Location

Dublin