The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
Query expansion by pseudo-relevance feedback is a well-established technique in both mono- and cross- lingual information retrieval, enriching and disambiguating the typically ter...
Mining bilingual data (including bilingual sentences and terms1 ) from the Web can benefit many NLP applications, such as machine translation and cross language information retrie...
Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, ...
This paper presents a new discriminative model for information retrieval (IR), referred to as linear discriminant model (LDM), which provides a flexible framework to incorporate a...