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ISI
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Generative Model for Statistical Determination of Information Content from Conversation Threads
We present a generative model for determining the information content of a message without analyzing the message content. Such a tool is useful for automated analysis of the vast ...
Yingjie Zhou, Malik Magdon-Ismail, William A. Wall...
KDD
2006
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Mining long-term search history to improve search accuracy
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
Bin Tan, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
ACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models
Recent text and speech processing applications such as speech mining raise new and more general problems related to the construction of language models. We present and describe in...
Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, Brian Roark