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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
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:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Transliteration of proper names in cross-language applications
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...
Paola Virga, Sanjeev Khudanpur
ICADL
2005
Springer
110views Education» more  ICADL 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A Hybrid Information Retrieval Model Using Metadata and Text
Metadata IR model has high precision and low recall because the query in Metadata IR model is strict that is, the query can express user information need exactly, while Full-text I...
Sung Kim, Sung Myaeng, Jeong-Mok Yoo
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Weighted Alignment Matrices for Statistical Machine Translation
Current statistical machine translation systems usually extract rules from bilingual corpora annotated with 1-best alignments. They are prone to learn noisy rules due to alignment...
Yang Liu, Tian Xia, Xinyan Xiao, Qun Liu
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Translation Model Pruning via Usage Statistics for Statistical Machine Translation
We describe a new pruning approach to remove phrase pairs from translation models of statistical machine translation systems. The approach applies the original translation system ...
Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel