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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Cross-lingual relevance models
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft
DELOS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Relevance Feedback for Best Match Term Weighting Algorithms in Information Retrieval
Personalisation in full text retrieval or full text filtering implies reweighting of the query terms based on some explicit or implicit feedback from the user. Relevance feedback i...
Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval
Search algorithms incorporating some form of topic model have a long history in information retrieval. For example, cluster-based retrieval has been studied since the 60s and has ...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval
In the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Track we experimented with language-specific morphosyntactic processing and light Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the retrieval of Bulgarian, French,...
Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis...