InTEXT automatic query enhancement in TREC-5
Richard Jones, Mark Thornton Burnett, Daniel Pape · Text REtrieval Conference · 1996
The experiments INTXA, and INTXM were carried out in the filtering stream of TREC-5. The principal objective of these experiments was to determine the effectiveness of the InTEXT Precision indexing tool to automatically improve queries. The experiments were run with the inTEXT Object Router tool-kit, and a second objective was to determine the effectiveness of Object Router in the TREC filtering environment. They wanted to see if InTEXT Precision could be used to take an initial query, manually created with minimal effort and transform it into an improved query, taking automatically selected words and phrases from a group of documents that were deemed relevant to the original query