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SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms
Abstract We compare the performance of two database selection algorithms reported in the literature. Their performance is compared using a common testbed designed specifically for ...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, James P. Calla...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Similarity-based Probability Model for Latent Semantic Indexing
A dual probability model is constructed for the Latent Semantic Indexing LSI using the cosine similarity measure. Both the document-document similarity matrix and the term-term ...
Chris H. Q. Ding
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty