Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
This paper describes experiments carried out with the XFIRM system in the INEX 2005 framework. The XFIRM system uses a relevance propagation method to answer CO and CAS queries. Ru...
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...