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SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
SMI
2003
IEEE
172views Image Analysis» more  SMI 2003»
14 years 28 days ago
Skeleton Based Shape Matching and Retrieval
In this paper, we describe a novel method for searching and comparing 3D objects. The method encodes the geometric and topological information in the form of a skeletal graph and ...
H. Sundar, Deborah Silver, Nikhil Gagvani, Sven J....
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Model-based Feedback in the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
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...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
ICDM
2007
IEEE
133views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Topical N-Grams: Phrase and Topic Discovery, with an Application to Information Retrieval
Most topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation, rely on the bag-of-words assumption. However, word order and phrases are often critical to capturing the meaning of text in...
Xuerui Wang, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei
AIR
2005
99views more  AIR 2005»
13 years 7 months ago
Evolving General Term-Weighting Schemes for Information Retrieval: Tests on Larger Collections
Term-weighting schemes are vital to the performance of Information Retrieval models that use term frequency characteristics to determine the relevance of a document. The vector spa...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan