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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Length normalization in XML retrieval
XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potential...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbj&...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
218views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
AxPRE Summaries: Exploring the (Semi-)Structure of XML Web Collections
The nature of semistructured data in web collections is evolving. Increasingly, XML web documents (or documents exchanged via web services) are valid with regard to a schema, yet ...
Mariano P. Consens, Flavio Rizzolo, Alejandro A. V...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
KAIS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Integrating multiple document features in language models for expert finding
We argue that expert finding is sensitive to multiple document features in an organizational intranet. These document features include multiple levels of associations between expe...
Jianhan Zhu, Xiangji Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. ...