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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
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NLPRS
2001
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
2001
Springer
We describe a simple improvement to ngram language models where we estimate the distribution over closed-class (function) words separately from the conditional distribution of ope...
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ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
We present a directed Markov random field (MRF) model that combines n-gram models, probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs) and probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) fo...
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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
We present an approximation to the Bayesian hierarchical PitmanYor process language model which maintains the power law distribution over word tokens, while not requiring a comput...
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ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...