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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Using parsimonious language models on web data
In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Rianne Kaptein, Rongmei Li, Djoerd Hiemstra, Jaap ...
IPM
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
An ensemble of transliteration models for information retrieval
Transliteration is used to phonetically translate proper names and technical terms especially from languages in Roman alphabets to languages in non-Roman alphabets such as from En...
Jong-Hoon Oh, Key-Sun Choi
AIRS
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Text Mining for Medical Documents Using a Hidden Markov Model
Abstract. We propose a semantic tagger that provides high level concept information for phrases in clinical documents. It delineates such information from the statements written by...
Hyeju Jang, Sa-Kwang Song, Sung-Hyon Myaeng
CLEF
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?
Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro