This journal has a knowledgeable and hard-working editorial board, listed on the journal’s Web site, but for most submissions we also enlist the aid of specialist reviewers outside the editorial board. The Editor of Computational Linguistics would like to express her gratitude to the external reviewers listed here, who anonymously reviewed papers for the journal during the preparation of this volume (Volume 42). Their generosity, judicious judgment, and prompt response substantially helped us to publish a journal that both is timely and maintains exacting scientific standards; it is a genuine pleasure to thank them collectively for their dedicated service.

This journal has a knowledgeable and hardworking editorial board, whose members are listed on the inside front cover of each issue, but for most submissions we also enlist the aid of specialist reviewers outside the editorial board. The Editor of Computational Linguistics would like to express his gratitude to the external reviewers listed below who anonymously reviewed papers for the journal during the preparation of this volume (Volume 31). Their generosity, judicious judgment, and prompt response substantially helped us to publish a journal that both is timely and maintains exacting scientific standards; it is a genuine pleasure to thank them collectively for their dedicated service.

This journal has a knowledgeable and hard working editorial board, listed on the inside front cover of each issue, but for most submissions we also enlist the aid of specialist reviewers outside the editorial board. The Editor of Computational Linguistics would like to express his gratitude to the external reviewers listed below, who anonymously reviewed papers for the journal during the preparation of this volume (Volume 34). Their generosity, judicious review, and prompt response substantially helped us to publish a journal that both is timely and maintains exacting scientific standards; it is a genuine pleasure to thank them collectively for their dedicated service.

This journal has a knowledgeable and hard working editorial board, listed on the inside front cover of each issue, but for most submissions we also enlist the aid of specialist reviewers outside the editorial board. The Editor of Computational Linguistics would like to express his gratitude to the external reviewers listed here, who anonymously reviewed papers for the journal during the preparation of this volume (Volume 33). Their generosity, judicious judgment, and prompt response substantially helped us to publish a journal that both is timely and maintains exacting scientific standards; it is a genuine pleasure to thank them collectively for their dedicated service.

This paper describes a query expansion strategy for domain specific information retrieval. Components of compounds are used selectively. Only parts belonging to the same domain as the compound itself will be used in expanded queries.