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ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
In the context of deployed spoken dialogue telecom services, we introduce a preprocessor called Fiction into the Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) component. It acts as an inter...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Springer
Paraphrasing van Rijsbergen [37], the time is ripe for another attempt at using natural language processing (NLP) for information retrieval (IR). This paper introduces my disserta...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2009
ACM
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
2010
ACM
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
INEX
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. This paper explores the possibility of using a modified Expectation-Maximization algorithm to estimate parameters for a simple hierarchical generative model for XML retr...