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SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
Abstract Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several researchers b...
Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval
Due to many unique characteristics of forum data, forum post retrieval is different from traditional document retrieval and web search, raising interesting research questions abou...
Huizhong Duan, Chengxiang Zhai
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Positional Language Models for Clinical Information Retrieval
The PECO framework is a knowledge representation for formulating clinical questions. Queries are decomposed into four aspects, which are Patient-Problem (P), Exposure (E), Compari...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
IR
2008
13 years 7 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Positional language models for information retrieval
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai