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TREC
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics Experiments
In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2003 Genomics Track and the Robust Track. A common theme that we explored is the robustness of a basic language modeling retri...
ChengXiang Zhai, Tao Tao, Hui Fang, Zhidi Shang
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A study of methods for negative relevance feedback
Negative relevance feedback is a special case of relevance feedback where we do not have any positive example; this often happens when the topic is difficult and the search result...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Positional relevance model for pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
IR
2007
13 years 5 months ago
An empirical study of tokenization strategies for biomedical information retrieval
Due to the great variation of biological names in biomedical text, appropriate tokenization is an important preprocessing step for biomedical information retrieval. Despite its im...
Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai
DEXAW
2009
IEEE
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14 years 16 days ago
Improving Web Page Retrieval Using Search Context from Clicked Domain Names
Abstract—Search context is a crucial factor that helps to understand a user’s information need in ad-hoc Web page retrieval. A query log of a search engine contains rich inform...
Rongmei Li