Query expansion using syntactically related words.

• Main Author: Fong, Boon Yean.
• Other Authors: Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Automation; DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1438
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study is in the area of automatic query expansion - automatically expanding query terms with related terms for the purpose of improving retrieval effectiveness. The most common approach to automatic query expansion is to expand each query term with statistically co-occuring terms - terms that t...