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EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Statistical Language Modeling Approach to Lattice-Based Spoken Document Retrieval
Speech recognition transcripts are far from perfect; they are not of sufficient quality to be useful on their own for spoken document retrieval. This is especially the case for c...
Tee Kiah Chia, Haizhou Li, Hwee Tou Ng
CIKM
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A General Language Model for Information Retrieval
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...
Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft
HICSS
2006
IEEE
114views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Detecting Document Genre for Personalization of Information Retrieval
We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical pitman-yor language model for information retrieval
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty