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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Positional language models for information retrieval
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Modeling and Combining Evidence Provided by Document Relationships Using Probabilistic Argumentation Systems
Previous research has shown that hypertext links may be a useful source of evidence for document contents and relevance, but these evidence are rather difficult to represent and co...
Justin Picard
IR
2006
13 years 8 months ago
A decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence in topic distillation
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
Vassilis Plachouras, Fidel Cacheda, Iadh Ounis
ICDM
2007
IEEE
147views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2007»
13 years 12 months ago
Improving Knowledge Discovery in Document Collections through Combining Text Retrieval and Link Analysis Techniques
In this paper, we present Concept Chain Queries (CCQ), a special case of text mining in document collections focusing on detecting links between two topics across text documents. ...
Wei Jin, Rohini K. Srihari, Hung Hay Ho, Xin Wu
JASIS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Combining and selecting characteristics of information use
In this paper we report on a series of experiments designed to investigate the combination of term and document weighting functions in Information Retrieval. We describe a series ...
Ian Ruthven, Mounia Lalmas, C. J. van Rijsbergen