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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 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
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Lightening the load of document smoothing for better language modeling retrieval
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A generative retrieval model for structured documents
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
TREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Incorporating Non-Relevance Information in the Estimation of Query Models
: We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's ILPS group in the relevance feedback track at TREC 2008. We introduce a new model which incorporates informati...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Jiyin He, Maarten de ...