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IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Computation with imprecise probabilities
abstract An imprecise probability distribution is an instance of second-order uncertainty, that is, uncertainty about uncertainty, or uncertainty for short. Another instance is an ...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A bayesian learning approach to promoting diversity in ranking for biomedical information retrieval
In this paper, we propose a Bayesian learning approach to promoting diversity for information retrieval in biomedicine and a re-ranking model to improve retrieval performance in t...
Xiangji Huang, Qinmin Hu
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Examining the Content Load of Part of Speech Blocks for Information Retrieval
We investigate the connection between part of speech (POS) distribution and content in language. We define POS blocks to be groups of parts of speech. We hypothesise that there ex...
Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis
SPIRE
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Model for Information Retrieval Based on Possibilistic Networks
This paper proposes a model for Information Retrieval (IR) based on possibilistic directed networks. Relations documents-terms and query-terms are modeled through possibility and n...
Asma Brini, Mohand Boughanem, Didier Dubois