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TREC-8 Automatic Ad-Hoc Experiments at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
1999
Text Retrieval Conference
We present further evidence suggesting the feasibilty of using information theoretic query expansion for improving the retrieval effectiveness of automatic document ranking . Compared to our participation in TREC-7, in which we applied this technique to an ineffective initial ranking, here we show that information theoretic query expansion may be effective even when the quality of the first pass ranking is high. In TREC-8 our system has been ranked among the best systems for both automatic ad
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