SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
2008
ACM
In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, a language model adapted to graph-based representation of image content is proposed and assessed. The full indexing and retrieval processes are evaluated on two diï...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...