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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
IR
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2002
ACM
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 ...
CIKM
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1999
Springer
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...
CICLING
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...