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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
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
LREC
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Language Modeling Approach for Retrieving Passages in Lecture Audio Data
Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) is a promising technology for enhancing the utility of spoken materials. After the spoken documents have been transcribed by using a Large Vocabula...
Koichiro Honda, Tomoyosi Akiba
IRAL
2000
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Content-based language models for spoken document retrieval
Spoken document retrieval (SDR) has been extensively studied in recent years because of its potential use in navigating large multimedia collections in the near future. This paper...
Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Natural language processing for information retrieval: the time is ripe (again)
Paraphrasing van Rijsbergen [37], the time is ripe for another attempt at using natural language processing (NLP) for information retrieval (IR). This paper introduces my disserta...
Matthew Lease