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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
ISRR
2005
Springer
178views Robotics» more  ISRR 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Improved Estimation of Target Velocity Using Multiple Model Estimation and a Dynamic Bayesian Network for a Robotic Tracker of O
A vision-based automatic tracking system for ocean animals in the midwater has been demonstrated in Monterey Bay, CA. Currently, the input to this system is a measurement of relati...
Aaron Plotnik, Stephen Rock
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
CAISE
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Non-Linear Cost Model for Multi-Node OLAP Systems
Answering performance to business queries, mainly of aggregated nature, known as On-Line Analytical Processing queries, depends heavily on the proper selection of multidimensional ...
Jorge Loureiro, Orlando Belo