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IPM
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
ICDE
2004
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Metasearching with Adaptive Probing
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
Zhenyu Liu, Chang Luo, Junghoo Cho, Wesley W. Chu
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
10^(10^6) Worlds and Beyond: Efficient Representation and Processing of Incomplete Information
We present a decomposition-based approach to managing probabilistic information. We introduce world-set decompositions (WSDs), a space-efficient and complete representation system ...
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Extracting Relevant Snippets for Web Navigation
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Qing Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Qi Yan
PVLDB
2008
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BayesStore: managing large, uncertain data repositories with probabilistic graphical models
Several real-world applications need to effectively manage and reason about large amounts of data that are inherently uncertain. For instance, pervasive computing applications mus...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Minos N. Gar...