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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 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
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Generalized syntactic and semantic models of query reformulation
We present a novel approach to query reformulation which combines syntactic and semantic information by means of generalized Levenshtein distance algorithms where the substitution...
Amac Herdagdelen, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Daniel M...
CLEF
2004
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task
This paper describes our participation to the monolingual English GIRT task. The main objectives of our experiments were to evaluate the use of Mercure IRS (designed at IRIT/SIG) o...
Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussena...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Translation enhancement: a new relevance feedback method for cross-language information retrieval
As an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness, relevance feedback (RF) has been widely studied in both monolingual and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR...
Daqing He, Dan Wu
DBISP2P
2004
Springer
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14 years 24 days ago
Using Information Retrieval Techniques to Route Queries in an InfoBeacons Network
We present the InfoBeacons system, in which a peer-to-peer network of beacons cooperates to route queries to the best information sources. The routing in our system uses techniques...
Brian F. Cooper