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IR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
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...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
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...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
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...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
KDD
2009
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient methods for topic model inference on streaming document collections
Topic models provide a powerful tool for analyzing large text collections by representing high dimensional data in a low dimensional subspace. Fitting a topic model given a set of...
Limin Yao, David M. Mimno, Andrew McCallum