... IntroductionOne of the grand challenges in information re-trieval is to bridge the vocabulary gap between auser and her information need on the one hand andthe relevant documents on the other ... is to expandthe query using global collection statistics based, for instance, on a co-occurrence analysis of the en-tire collection. Thesaurus- and dictionary -based expansion as, e.g., in Qiu ... asks for information on the annual worldeconomic forum meeting in Davos in January,something typically related to news, and topic 949(ford bell, +304% AP), which seeks information on Ford Bell,...