Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
In the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Track we experimented with language-specific morphosyntactic processing and light Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the retrieval of Bulgarian, French,...
Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis...
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
We investigates language models for informational and navigational web search. Retrieval on the web is a task that differs substantially from ordinary ad hoc retrieval. We perfor...