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IR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A general approximation framework for direct optimization of information retrieval measures
Recently direct optimization of information retrieval (IR) measures becomes a new trend in learning to rank. Several methods have been proposed and the effectiveness of them has ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Integrating word relationships into language models
In this paper, we propose a novel dependency language modeling approach for information retrieval. The approach extends the existing language modeling approach by relaxing the ind...
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-on and Multi-8 Merging-Only Tasks
This year, we have participated on multilingual two years on and Multi-8 merging-only CLEF task. Our main interest has been to test several usual CLIR tasks and investigate how th...
Fernando Martínez Santiago, Miguel Angel Ga...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Dirichlet-Smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak
IR
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Modeling score distributions in information retrieval
We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson