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Probabilistic latent query analysis for combining multiple retrieval sources

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Probabilistic latent query analysis for combining multiple retrieval sources
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retrieval and meta-search. To merge retrieval sources adaptively according to query topics, we propose a series of new approaches called probabilistic latent query analysis (pLQA), which can associate non-identical combination weights with latent classes underlying the query space. Compared with previous query independent and query-class based combination methods, the proposed approaches have the advantage of being able to discover latent query classes automatically without using prior human knowledge, to assign one query to a mixture of query classes, and to determine the number of query classes under a model selection principle. Experimental results on two retrieval tasks, i.e., multimedia retrieval and meta-search, demonstrate that the proposed methods can uncover sensible latent classes from training data, an...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where SIGIR
Authors Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann
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