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TREC
2003
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A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee
LREC
2008
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Modeling Document Dynamics: an Evolutionary Approach
News articles about the same event published over time have properties that challenge NLP and IR applications. A cluster of such texts typically exhibits instances of paraphrase a...
Jahna Otterbacher, Dragomir R. Radev
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Model-based Feedback in the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Dependence language model for information retrieval
This paper presents a new dependence language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic language modeling approach based on unigram by relaxing th...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Integrating word relationships into language models
In this paper, we propose a novel dependency language modeling approach for information retrieval. The approach extends the existing language modeling approach by relaxing the ind...
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Multiplying Concept Sources for Graph Modeling
This paper presents the LIG contribution to the CLEF 2007 medical retrieval task (i.e. ImageCLEFmed). The main idea in this paper is to incorporate medical knowledge in the langua...
Loïc Maisonnasse, Éric Gaussier, Jean-...