In our participation to the 2010 LogCLEF track we focused on the analysis of the European Library (TEL) logs and in particular we experimented with the identification of the natura...
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
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...
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
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...