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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Ranked feature fusion models for ad hoc retrieval
We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Discriminative probabilistic models for passage based retrieval
The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...
Mengqiu Wang, Luo Si
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Referring-Expression Generation Using a Transformation-Based Learning Approach
A natural language generation system must generate expressions that allow a reader to identify the entities to which they refer. This paper describes the creation of referring-exp...
Jill Nickerson, Stuart M. Shieber, Barbara J. Gros...
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel ...
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