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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A latent variable model for query expansion using the hidden markov model
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
Qiang Huang, Dawei Song
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. ...
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Abstract. In this paper we propose an approach to deal with the ChineseEnglish cross-language image retrieval problem. Text-based image retrieval and query translation methods were...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Changhua Yang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
A late fusion approach to cross-lingual document re-ranking
The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to...
Dong Zhou, Séamus Lawless, Jinming Min, Vin...
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Enhancing Expert Search Through Query Modeling
An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps t...
Pavel Serdyukov, Sergey Chernov, Wolfgang Nejdl