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EMNLP
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text
Chinese is a language that does not have morphological tense markers that provide explicit grammaticalization of the temporal location of situations (events or states). However, i...
Nianwen Xue
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
Abstract Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several researchers b...
Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft
COOPIS
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Fuzzy Model for Representing Uncertain, Subjective, and Vague Temporal Knowledge in Ontologies
Abstract. Time modeling is a crucial feature in many application domains. However, temporal information often is not crisp, but is uncertain, subjective and vague. This is particul...
Gábor Nagypál, Boris Motik
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Model-based Feedback in the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra