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ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval
Abstract. While the Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval provides the basis for formal models, it makes a very strong assumption regarding the dependence between...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
SEMWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Strategy for Automated Meaning Negotiation in Distributed Information Retrieval
The paper reports on the formal framework to design strategies for multi-issue non-symmetric meaning negotiations among software agents in a distributed information retrieval syste...
Vadim Ermolayev, Natalya Keberle, Wolf-Ekkehard Ma...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Estimation of statistical translation models based on mutual information for ad hoc information retrieval
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai
WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 3 months ago
The early bird gets the buzz: detecting anomalies and emerging trends in information networks
In this work we propose a novel approach to anomaly detection in streaming communication data. We first build a stochastic model for the system based on temporal communication pa...
Brian Thompson