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We examine the effects of various query modifications on the problem of answer projection — the task of retrieving documents that support a given answer to a question. We compare different techniques such as phrase searches and term weighting, and show that some models achieve significant improvements over unmodified queries.
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Mishne, G., de Rijke, M. (2005). Query Formulation for Answer Projection. In: Losada, D.E., Fernández-Luna, J.M. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_39
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