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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 3 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...
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 2 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...
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 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...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 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...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 11 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...