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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Risk minimization and language modeling in text retrieval dissertation abstract
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Lightening the load of document smoothing for better language modeling retrieval
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
IR
2008
13 years 7 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
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