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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
IR
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Web and Terabyte tracks. For the web track, we employ mixture language models based on document full-text, incoming anchortext, and...
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
We present a language-independent and unsupervised algorithm for the segmentation of words into morphs. The algorithm is based on a new generative probabilistic model, which makes...