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Investigating Query-Drift Problem from a Novel Perspective of Photon Polarization

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Advances in Information Retrieval Theory (ICTIR 2011)

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Query expansion, while generally effective in improving retrieval performance, may lead to the query-drift problem. Following the recent development of applying Quantum Mechanics (QM) to IR, we investigate the problem from a novel theoretical perspective inspired by photon polarization (a key QM experiment).

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  1. School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom

    Peng Zhang & Dawei Song

  2. School of Computer Sci & Tec, Tianjin University, China

    Xiaozhao Zhao & Yuexian Hou

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  1. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Viale del Policlinico 147, 00161, Rome, Italy

    Giambattista Amati

  2. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

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Zhang, P., Song, D., Zhao, X., Hou, Y. (2011). Investigating Query-Drift Problem from a Novel Perspective of Photon Polarization. In: Amati, G., Crestani, F. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. ICTIR 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_33

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