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ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited Dependencies Language Model
Intuitively, any `bag of words' approach in IR should benefit from taking term dependencies into account. Unfortunately, for years the results of exploiting such dependencies ...
Eduard Hoenkamp, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song, Qiang Hu...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie
ADBIS
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Implementing a Query Language for Context-Dependent Semistructured Data
Abstract. In today’s global environment, the structure and presentation of information may depend on the underlying context of the user. To address this issue, in previous work w...
Yannis Stavrakas, Kostis Pristouris, Antonis Efand...