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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A generative retrieval model for structured documents
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
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...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Time-Sensitive Language Modelling for Online Term Recurrence Prediction
We address the problem of online term recurrence prediction: for a stream of terms, at each time point predict what term is going to recur next in the stream given the term occurre...
Dell Zhang, Jinsong Lu, Robert Mao, Jian-Yun Nie
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
Bin Tan, Fuchun Peng