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SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 10 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
15 years 10 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
15 years 10 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