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NAACL
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
AIR
2005
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13 years 9 months ago
Evolving General Term-Weighting Schemes for Information Retrieval: Tests on Larger Collections
Term-weighting schemes are vital to the performance of Information Retrieval models that use term frequency characteristics to determine the relevance of a document. The vector spa...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan
CICLING
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Multi Word Term Queries for Focused Information Retrieval
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
Eric SanJuan, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan
ICDM
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Topical N-Grams: Phrase and Topic Discovery, with an Application to Information Retrieval
Most topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation, rely on the bag-of-words assumption. However, word order and phrases are often critical to capturing the meaning of text in...
Xuerui Wang, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu