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LATA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Kleene Theorem for Forest Languages
This paper proposes an alternative approach to the standard notion of rational (or regular) expression for tree languages. The main difference is that in the new notion we have on...
Lutz Straßburger
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Time-based language models
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue
Even in a massive corpus such as the Web, a substantial fraction of extractions appear infrequently. This paper shows how to assess the correctness of sparse extractions by utiliz...
Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland
ENTCS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Phil: A Lazy Implementation of a Language for Approximate Filtering of XML Documents
In this paper, we introduce a system, written in Haskell, for filtering information from XML data. Essentially, the system implements a simple declarative language which allows on...
Michele Baggi, Demis Ballis