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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Parsimonious relevance models
We describe a method for applying parsimonious language models to re-estimate the term probabilities assigned by relevance models. We apply our method to six topic sets from test ...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maar...
TREC
2007
14 years 18 days ago
Opinion Retrieval Experiments Using Generative Models: Experiments for the TREC 2007 Blog Track
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
Yuki Arai, Koji Eguchi
RIAO
2007
14 years 26 days ago
Investigating Retrieval Performance with Manually-Built Topic Models
Modeling text with topics is currently a popular research area in both Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (IR). Most of this research has focused on automatic methods thou...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Time-based language models
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft