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ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents
Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a spec...
Mohammad Abolhassani, Norbert Fuhr
IPM
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
ICTAI
2006
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
Hierarchical Language Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora
Enterprise corpora contain evidence of what employees work on and therefore can be used to automatically find experts on a given topic. We present a general approach for represen...
Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra