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...
We address the problem of online term recurrence prediction: for a stream of terms, at each time point predict what term is going to recur next in the stream given the term occurre...
Mining feedback information from user click-through data is an important issue for modern Web retrieval systems in terms of architecture analysis, performance evaluation and algor...
Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Zhou, Liyun ...
The main goal of this paper it is to present our experiments in ImageCLEF 2010 Campaign (Wikipedia retrieval task). This edition we present a different way of using textual and vis...
Joan Benavent, Xaro Benavent, Esther de Ves, Ruben...
We present an approach for detecting link spam common in blog comments by comparing the language models used in the blog post, the comment, and pages linked by the comments. In co...