@article {IOPORT.05135495, author = {Na, Seung-Hoon and Kang, In-Su and Roh, Ji-Eun and Lee, Jong-Hyeok}, title = {An empirical study of query expansion and cluster-based retrieval in language modeling approach.}, year = {2007}, journal = {Information Processing and Management}, volume = {43}, number = {2}, issn = {0306-4573}, pages = {302-314}, publisher = {Elsevier Science (Pergamon), Kidlington, Oxon}, doi = {10.1016/j.ipm.2006.07.003}, abstract = {Summary: The term mismatch problem in information retrieval is a critical problem, and several techniques have been developed, such as query expansion, cluster-based retrieval and dimensionality reduction to resolve this issue. Of these techniques, this paper performs an empirical study on query expansion and cluster-based retrieval. We examine the effect of using parsimony in query expansion and the effect of clustering algorithms in cluster-based retrieval. In addition, query expansion and cluster-based retrieval are compared, and their combinations are evaluated in terms of retrieval performance by performing experimentations on seven test collections of NTCIR and TREC.}, identifier = {05135495}, }