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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents
Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a spec...
Mohammad Abolhassani, Norbert Fuhr
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Dirichlet-Smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Cross Language Experiments at Persian@CLEF 2008
In this study we will discuss our cross language text retrieval (CLIR) experiments of Persian ad hoc track at CLEF 2008. Two teams from University of Tehran were involved in cross...
Abolfazl AleAhmad, Ehsan Kamalloo, Arash Zareh, Ma...
APCCM
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Extracting and Modeling the Semantic Information Content of Web Documents to Support Semantic Document Retrieval
Existing HTML mark-up is used only to indicate the structure and lay-out of documents, but not the document semantics. As a result web documents are difficult to be semantically p...
Shahrul Azman Noah, Lailatulqadri Zakaria, Arifah ...