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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search
An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra
IIR
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Developing the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle
In this work, we summarise the development of a ranking principle based on quantum probability theory, called the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP), and we also provide...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Optimizing Language Model Information Retrieval System with Expectation Maximization Algorithm
Statistical language modeling (SLM) has been used in many different domains for decades and has also been applied to information retrieval (IR) recently. Documents retrieved using...
Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Jyun-Wei Huang
WSDM
2012
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 5 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
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 11 months ago
Computing Term Translation Probabilities with Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis
Term translation probabilities proved an effective method of semantic smoothing in the language modelling approach to information retrieval. We use Generalized Latent Semantic Ana...
Irina Matveeva, Gina-Anne Levow