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CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Multiplying Concept Sources for Graph Modeling
This paper presents the LIG contribution to the CLEF 2007 medical retrieval task (i.e. ImageCLEFmed). The main idea in this paper is to incorporate medical knowledge in the langua...
Loïc Maisonnasse, Éric Gaussier, Jean-...
CIKM
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A General Language Model for Information Retrieval
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...
Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Lower-bounding term frequency normalization
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure
In evidence-based medicine, clinical questions involve four aspects: Patient/Problem (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C) and Outcome (O), known as PICO elements. In this paper w...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...