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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
2011
Springer
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2005
ACM
In Information Retrieval (IR), the Dirichlet Priors have been applied to the smoothing technique of the language modeling approach. In this paper, we apply the Dirichlet Priors to...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2002
ACM
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
ERCIMDL
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
1999
Springer
Abstract. This paper gives an overview of tools and methods for CrossLanguage Information Retrieval (CLIR) that are developed within the Twenty-One project. The tools and methods a...
ANLP
1997
13 years 9 months ago
1997
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...