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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
A database approach to information retrieval: The remarkable relationship between language models and region models
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Djoerd Hiemstra, Vojkan Mihajlovic
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Dependence language model for information retrieval
This paper presents a new dependence language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic language modeling approach based on unigram by relaxing th...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong ...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
Abstract Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several researchers b...
Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Model-based Feedback in the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty