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query ambiguity: a standalone construct

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Information retrieval

the property of a query having several distinct interpretations, studied for how often it occurs and how test collections should account for it.

In information retrieval, query ambiguity refers to the property of a query having several distinct interpretations, studied for how often it occurs and how test collections should account for it. This meaning comes from Sanderson (2008) in Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval.[1]

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  1. Sanderson, M. (2008). Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense. Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. https://doi.org/10.1145/1390334.1390420

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