This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Word prediction performed by language models has an important role in many tasks as e.g. word sense disambiguation, speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, query spelling an...
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), consists in assigning the correct sense (semantics) to a word form (lexeme) by means of the cont...
Davide Buscaldi, Giovanna Guerrini, Marco Mesiti, ...
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
In our participation to the 2010 LogCLEF track we focused on the analysis of the European Library (TEL) logs and in particular we experimented with the identification of the natura...