Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, G...
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
As archives contain documents that span over a long period of time, the language used to create these documents and the language used for querying the archive can diļ¬er. This diļ...
Opinion ļ¬nding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially diļ¬cult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
Opinion retrieval is a document retrieval process, which requires documents to be retrieved and ranked according to their opinions about a query topic. A relevant document must sa...