In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...
The University of Chicago participated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 (CLEF2004) cross-language multilingual, bilingual, and spoken language tracks. Cross-language exp...
This paper regards images with captions as a cross-media parallel corpus, and presents a corpus-based relevance feedback approach to combine the results of visual and textual runs....
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...