The use of phrases in retrieval models has been proven to be helpful in the literature, but no particular research addresses the problem of discriminating phrases that are likely ...
An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Rijsberge...
According to the logical model of Information Retrieval (IR), the task of IR can be described as the extraction, from a given document base, of those documents d that, given a que...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...
How to assign appropriate weights to terms is one of the critical issues in information retrieval. Many term weighting schemes are unsupervised. They are either based on the empir...