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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Clickthrough-based translation models for web search: from word models to phrase models
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Jian-Yun Nie
TREC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Parsimonious Language Models for a Terabyte of Text
: The aims of this paper are twofold. Our first aim is to compare results of the earlier Terabyte tracks to the Million Query track. We submitted a number of runs using different ...
Djoerd Hiemstra, Rongmei Li, Jaap Kamps, Rianne Ka...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Jav...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 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
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Ranking-based processing of SQL queries
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Hany Azzam, Thomas Roelleke, Sirvan Yahyaei