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CIKM
1999
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
A General Language Model for Information Retrieval
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...
Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 13 days ago
Hierarchical pitman-yor language model for information retrieval
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Dependence language model for information retrieval
This paper presents a new dependence language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic language modeling approach based on unigram by relaxing th...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty