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ANLP
1997
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13 years 9 months ago
Building Effective Queries In Natural Language Information Retrieval
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...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Using parsimonious language models on web data
In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Rianne Kaptein, Rongmei Li, Djoerd Hiemstra, Jaap ...
IPM
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
An ensemble of transliteration models for information retrieval
Transliteration is used to phonetically translate proper names and technical terms especially from languages in Roman alphabets to languages in non-Roman alphabets such as from En...
Jong-Hoon Oh, Key-Sun Choi
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 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