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JASIS
2000
13 years 9 months ago
2000
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper studies document ranking under uncertainty. It is tackled in a general situation where the relevance predictions of individual documents have uncertainty, and are depen...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...