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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Regularized estimation of mixture models for robust pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy in all retrieval models. However the performance of existing pseudo feedback meth...
Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Combining LVCSR and vocabulary-independent ranked utterance retrieval for robust speech search
Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...
J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical pitman-yor language model for information retrieval
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
ACL
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Noun-Phrase Analysis in Unrestricted Text for Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an important application area of natural-language processing where one encounters the genuine challenge of processing large quantities of unrestricted nat...
David A. Evans, ChengXiang Zhai