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...
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...
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...
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...
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...