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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic Models for Expert Finding
A common task in many applications is to find persons who are knowledgeable about a given topic (i.e., expert finding). In this paper, we propose and develop a general probabilis...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of searching for knowledgeable persons within the enterprise, known as the expert finding (or expert search) task. We present a proba...
Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
PRL
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
Exploring the use of latent topical information for statistical Chinese spoken document retrieval
Information retrieval which aims to provide people with easy access to all kinds of information is now becoming more and more emphasized. However, most approaches to information r...
Berlin Chen
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...