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NLPRS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Simple Closed-Class/Open-Class Factorization for Improved Language Modeling
We describe a simple improvement to ngram language models where we estimate the distribution over closed-class (function) words separately from the conditional distribution of ope...
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 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
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Contextual advertising by combining relevance with click feedback
Contextual advertising supports much of the Web's ecosystem today. User experience and revenue (shared by the site publisher ad the ad network) depend on the relevance of the...
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Deepak Agarwal, Vanja Josifo...
WSDM
2012
ACM
236views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 10 days ago
Effective query formulation with multiple information sources
Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
CVPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Simultaneous surveillance camera calibration and foot-head homology estimation from human detections
We propose a novel method for automatic camera calibration and foot-head homology estimation by observing persons standing at several positions in the camera field of view. We de...
Branislav Micusik, Tomas Pajdla